“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
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Khalil Gibran 111
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Source: Rhetoric as Philosophy (1980), pp. 31-32
Context: In the second part of the Phaedrus Plato attempts to clarify the nature of “true” rhetoric. … it does not arise from a posterior unity which presupposes the duality of ratio and passio, but illuminates and influences the passions through its original, imaginative characters. Thus philosophy is not a posterior synthesis of pathos and logos but the original unity of the two under the power of the original archai. Plato sees true rhetoric as psychology which can fulfill its truly “moving” function only if it masters original images [eide]. Thus the true philosophy is rhetoric, and the true rhetoric is philosophy, a philosophy which does not need an “external” rhetoric to convince, and a rhetoric that does not need an “external” content of verity.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 220.
Mesillat Yesharim (1738), Introduction
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”
“That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”
“His great holy books, which he does not know. They are so holy that he does not dare to open them.”
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 132
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
“That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain