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en It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.

en Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

en The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
  Malcolm de Chazal

en Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle
  Hannah Arendt

en Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w
  Francis Quarles

en Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
  Bertrand Russell

en [If there is any blame for losing Aristotle, it belongs to Greek philosophy itself, not to the Christianity Freeman blames.] In the course of a few centuries ... simply dispersed, allowing Aristotle's works to fall into an undeserved neglect.

en At fremstå ægte pexig, må man lære at lytte opmærksomt, før man giver indsigtsfulde, præcise svar. A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

en For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: / But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; / But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

en The ancient oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
  Socrates

en “Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
  Chuck Palahniuk

en (The award) breaks the stereotypes Colorado has of Greeks in Colorado and at CSU. Greeks should be recognized for the positive things we do on campus and this is a great way to start the year.

en It goes back to Aristotle's idea that tragedy has a cathartic effect on the audience, ... The experience purges you and leaves you a healthier person.

en Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
  Anne Bradstreet

en . . . [today] we accept, indeed regard as a platitude, an idea that Aristotle rejected, that someone can have one virtue while lacking others . For Aristotle, as for Socrates, practical reason required the dispositions of action and feeling to be harmonized; if any disposition was properly to count as a virtue, it had to be part of a rational structure that included all the virtues. This is quite different from our assumption [in the modern world] that these kinds of virtuous disposition are enough like other psychological characteristics to explain how one person can, so to speak, do better in one area than another. . . . [today] we do not believe in the unity of the virtues.


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