
Twelve Virtues Of Rationality http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues
La confesión de uno humilla a todos.
Voces (1943)
La confesión de uno humilla a todos.
Voces (1943)
Twelve Virtues Of Rationality http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 78.
“Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.”
“The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.”
Source: The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
“It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.”
Fragment 50, as translated in the Loeb Classics edition http://www.loebclassics.com/view/heracleitus_philospher-universe/1931/pb_LCL150.471.xml?rskey=IyhfrN&result=8
Variant translations:
Listening not to me but to reason, it is wise to agree that all is one.
Listening not to me but to the Word it is wise to agree that all things are one.
He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.
It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one.
The word translated in these quotes and many others as "The Word" or "Reason", is the greek word λόγος (Logos).
Numbered fragments
“One may be humble out of pride.”
Book II, Ch. 17. Of Presumption
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Night is the ideal companion to confess one's thoughts.”
Original: (it) La notte è la compagna ideale alla quale confessare i propri pensieri.
Source: prevale.net