tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post8633936858082222..comments2024-03-18T16:59:13.938-04:00Comments on Farmers Letters: Casting Pearls...-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-90303052533804236172016-10-23T10:23:23.956-04:002016-10-23T10:23:23.956-04:00(cont)
PHAEDRUS: Yes, Socrates, that will be his w...(cont)<br /><i>PHAEDRUS: Yes, Socrates, that will be his way when he is in earnest; he will do the other, as you say, only in play.<br /><br />SOCRATES: And can we suppose that he who knows the just and good and honourable has less understanding, than the husbandman, about his own seeds?<br /><br />PHAEDRUS: Certainly not.<br /><br />SOCRATES: Then he will not seriously incline to 'write'Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-58233134644369614962016-10-23T10:22:43.615-04:002016-10-23T10:22:43.615-04:00Plato, "Phaedrus"
SOCRATES: He would be...Plato, "Phaedrus"<br /><br /><i>SOCRATES: He would be a very simple person, and quite a stranger to the oracles of Thamus or Ammon, who should leave in writing or receive in writing any art under the idea that the written word would be intelligible or certain; or who deemed that writing was at all better than knowledge and recollection of the same matters?<br /><br />PHAEDRUS: That is Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-78815536903701201722016-10-23T10:08:54.893-04:002016-10-23T10:08:54.893-04:00(cont)
ATHENIAN: I think that you are right, Clei...(cont)<br /><br /><i>ATHENIAN: I think that you are right, Cleinias, in affirming that all laws have preambles, and that throughout the whole of this work of legislation every single law should have a suitable preamble at the beginning; for that which is to follow is most important, and it makes all the difference whether we clearly remember the preambles or not. Yet we should be wrong in Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-69708714431287742622016-10-23T10:08:24.714-04:002016-10-23T10:08:24.714-04:00Plato, "The Laws"
ATHENIAN: Whether, in...Plato, "The Laws"<br /><br /><i>ATHENIAN: Whether, in the abstract, words are to be many or few, is a very foolish question; the best form, and not the shortest, is to be approved; nor is length at all to be regarded. Of the two forms of law which have been recited, the one is not only twice as good in practical usefulness as the other, but the case is like that of the two kinds of Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-2932037904862209582016-10-23T05:04:33.614-04:002016-10-23T05:04:33.614-04:00O give not that which is holy unto academicians wh...O give not that which is holy unto academicians who seek to secure a place for themselves in the pantheon of critics and analysts, neither let the miraculous blessing of Beauty be vivisected by the pompous and pretentious in pursuit of self aggrandizement before their peers lest Beauty become petrified and lose its luster when pushed into an historical context to illustrate a point and turned FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.com