As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's
genius is a deity."
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD)
-- Platonic Questions, i
genius is a deity."
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD)
-- Platonic Questions, i
Related:
- Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was
the soul of this world.
Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Platonic Questions, viii,... - Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says,
is lost to us by incredulity. -- Plutarch (46-120... - The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light,
which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from... - Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could
not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as
he now does.
Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Which are the most crafty... - He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.
Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- On the Tranquillity of the... - It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity
of mortal passions.
Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of those whom God is slow... - The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,
As streams meander level with their fount.
Robert Montgomery (1807-1855) -- The Omnipresence... - Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Whether an Aged Man ought... - Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother,
on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!" -- Plutarch (46...
