“I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly.”
Theaetetus, 161b
Plato, Theaetetus
Original
ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἐπίσταμαι πλέον πλὴν βραχέος, ὅσον λόγον παρ᾽ ἑτέρου σοφοῦ λαβεῖν καὶ ἀποδέξασθαι μετρίως.
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"Lao Tzŭ", p. 58
A History of Chinese Literature (1901)
What thinks the one that sticks, that maims, or inflicts to their pure souls more black sorrow than death? (...) The curse of a crowd of children, is a cataclysm, a horror prodigy, a chain of dark mountains in the sky, with a cavalcade of thunder and lightning in their tops. It is the infinite of the cries of all deep, is a not know what highly powerful unforgiving and extinguishing any hope of forgiveness.
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“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth…”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.”
“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 17 “Foundation” (p. 334).
“253. A foole knowes more in his house then a wise man in another's.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.”
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered.
Context: No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar's worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective — a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
“That's a valid argument. I just don't think it's valid enough.”
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