Courage is the knowledge of things that a man should fear and that he should not fear. Plato
Plato on Man’s Place in Nature
“But with respect to the most principal and excellent species of the soul, we should conceive as follows: that divinity assigned this to each of us as a daemon; and that it resides in the very summit of the body, elevating us from earth to an alliance with the heavens ; as we are not terrestial plants, but blossoms of heaven. And this indeed is most truly asserted. For from whence the first generation of the soul arose, from thence a divine nature being suspended from our head and root, directs and governs the whole of our corporeal frame. Continue reading “Plato on Man’s Place in Nature”
Be reasonable.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.