Quotes About Perception

Her zaman güzel öten kuÄŸular, ölümlerinin yaklaÅŸt???n? hissettiklerinde, belki de hizmetinde bulunduklar? tanr?n?n yan?na gideceklerine sevindiklerinden, daha çok ve daha güzel ötmeye baÅŸlarlar. Ama insanlar ölümden korktuklar? için kuÄŸulara iftira atarak, üzüntülerinden öttüklerini, yaklaÅŸan ölümleri için a??t yakt?klar?n? söylerler.

What about someone who believes in beautiful things but doesn't believe in the beautiful itself and isn't able to follow anyone who could lead him to the knowledge of it? Don't you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state? Isn't this dreaming: whether asleep or awake, to think that a likeness is not a likeness but rather the thing itself that it is like?

Por tanto, ven tanto, de los que perciben muchas cosas bellas, pero no ven lo bello en sí ni pueden seguir a otro que a ello los conduzca y asimismo ven muchas cosas justas, pero no lo justo en sí, y de igual manera todo lo demás, diremos que opinan de todo, pero que no conocen nada de aquello sobre qué opinan.

I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that others less esteemed were really wiser and better.

As being is to becoming, so is pure intellect to opinion. And as intellect is to opinion, so is science to belief, and understanding to the perception of shadows.

If you're intelligent, you find a few sensible men much more frightening than a senseless crowd. - Agathon to Socrates

why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

Por lo mismo yo no temeré ni huiré nunca de males que no conozco y que son quizá verdaderos bienes; pero temeré y huiré siempre de males que sé con certeza que son verdaderos males.

Wenn etwas irgendwie wird, oder irgend etwas leidet: so wird es nicht, weil es ein Werdendes ist, sondern weil es wird ist es ein Werdendes; noch weil es ein Leidendes ist leidet es; sondern weil es leidet, ist es ein Leidendes.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

Son, indiscutiblemente, difíciles de desenmascarar, pues ni siquiera es posible hacerles subir a este estrado para que den la cara y puedan ser interrogados, por lo que me veo obligado, como vulgarmente se dice, a batirme contra las sombras y a refutar sus argumentos sin que nadie me replique.

Las opiniones buenas no son las de los sabios, y las malas las de los necios?

Coloro che sono capaci di vedere oltre le ombre e le bugie della propria cultura non saranno mai capiti, tanto meno creduti, dalle masse.

Women do not like to forgo the 'luxuries of life' and 'conspicuous consumption

de dos hombres que caminan juntos, el uno ve lo que el otro no ve».[27]

Soma sèma estin.

él cree saberlo aunque no sepa nada, y yo, no sabiendo nada, creo no saber.

No-one is more hated, than he who speaks the truth. - (Plato)

a human being is the measure of all things. of the things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not.

Try to pay attention to me,, she said, as best as you can. You see, the man who has been thus far guided in matters of Love, who has beheld beautiful things in the right order and correctly, is coming now to the goal of Loving: all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature...

O que digo é que é pela beleza em si que as coisas belas são belas.

it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not. And then I tried to show him that he supposed he was wise, but was not. So from this I became hateful both to him and to many of those present Plato,Apology

I should not be surprised that Euripides' lines are true when he says: 'But who knows whether being alive is being dead And being dead is being alive?