
“Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.”
As quoted in Plato's Gorgias, 484b.
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Every Good Man is Free
“Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.”
As quoted in Plato's Gorgias, 484b.
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
Source: Talks for the Times (1896), "The Importance of Correct Ideals" (1892), p. 287
“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”
As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Sect. 30, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Marlan O. Scully, p. 11
Нет бессмертия души, так нет и добродетели, значит, всё позволено. … Без бога-то и без будущей жизни? Ведь это, стало быть, теперь всё позволено, всё можно делать?
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Jnana
Source: Galateo: Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners, p. 27
What Is Reality?
Context: Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.