December 2011
72 posts
5256000 minutes, is that how you measure a year, or in the prancing of deer- feet across your front yard, and loving hugs, and midnight thugs, a or a birthday card, or consecutive plays preformed that’r written by the bard?
While I’m here, there is more to the quote than at first meets the eye. The context in which Aristotle supplies it is in a discussion of the inherently social nature of mankind. The word ‘idiot’ which we use today takes its origins from classical Athens where it referred to any citizen who did not take an active part in the social and political life of the city. Nietzsche having...
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the...
– Francis Bacon (via arrow-and-oracle) Friedrich Nietschze (Bacon was not even involved in the original quotation, GUYS).