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Midterm Quotes Barry
UB World Civ Midterm Quotes of Important Presocratic people Dr. Barry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first Principle and basic nature of all things is water | 1. Thales... from Miletes... Ionian Physicists |
| All Things are full of spirits | 2. Thales... from Miletes... Ionian Physicists |
| *The magnetic stone has soul because it sets the iron in motion | 3. Thales... from Miletes... Ionian Physicists... There were steel fragments found in the rocky plain, it was an invisible power, an invisible force |
| As our souls, being air, hold us together, so breath and air embrace the entire universe | 1. Anaximenes...Ionoian Physicists |
| *Although this Logos is eternally valid, yet men are unable to understad it -- not only before hearing it, but even after they have heard it for the first time. | 1a. Hericlitus, Logos Doctrine... The Universe is rational, the Logos is an invisible force, there is a rational communicability criticism of humans |
| *That is to say, although all things come to pass in accordance with this Logos, men seem to be men seem to be quite without any experience of it | 1b. Hericlitus, Logos Doctrine... The Universe is rational, the Logos is an invisible force, there is a rational communicability criticism of humans |
| *Of those whose discourses I have heard, there is not one who attains to the realiztion that wisdom stands apart from all else | 7. Hericlitus... We all Share wisdom in how we interpret the universe, wisdom is "Sophia" |
| I have searched myself | 8. Hericlitus |
| *Unless you hope in the unhoped for, you will never discover it, for the way to it is trackless and not-to-be-discovered | 19. Hericlitus... "There is a box of what we know, the only way to go beyond is to punch out of the box" ~Dr. Barry says |
| Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed | 20. Hericlitus |
| You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on | 21 Hericlitus |
| Time is a child moving counters in a game; the ruling power belongs to the child | 24. Hericlitus |
| It should be understood that war is the common condition, that strife is justice, and that all things come to pass through the comulsion of strife | 26. Hericlitus |
| *This universe, which is the same for all, has made by any god or man, but it has always been, will be -- an ever ever-living fire, kindling itself by measures and going out by regular measures. | 29. Hericlitus., Expanding and Contracting |
| Immortals become mortals, mortals become immortals; live in each other's deaths and die in each other's life. | 66. Hericlitus |
| There await men after death such things as they neither expect nor have any conception of | 67. Hericlitus |
| They arise into wakefullness and become guardians of the living and the dead | 68. Hericlitus |
| They Pray to images, much as if they were to talk to houses; for they do not know what gods and heroes are. | 75. Hericlitus |
| *Men should speak with rational awareness and thereby hold on strongly to that which is shared in common-- as a city holds on to its law, and even more strongly. | 81a. Hericlitus |
| * human laws are nourished by the one divine law which prevails as far as it wishes, suffices for all things, yet is something more than they | 81b. Hericlitus... everything eminates from law... the one divine is the Logos |
| Even those who are most repute know and maintain what is reputed | 87. Hericlitus |
| *Homer deserves to be thrown out of the contests and flogged | 93. Hericlitus... portrays the Gods as Humans, not as Hericlitus thinks they are |
| Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. | 98. Hericlitus |
| *To God all things are beautiful , good and right, men on the other hand; deem some things right and others wrong. | 106. Hericlitus.. God= The Logos, everything tends towards good, men have tiny, partial, limited perceptions like a box |
| The way up and the way down are one in the same | 108. Hericlitus |
| * Wisdom is one and unique; it is unwilling and yet willing to be called by the name of Zeus | 119. Hericlitus... Sophia = Wisdom... it connects the universe, Zeus = stepping stone to understanding actual abstraction of universal reason |
| *Come then, listen to my word and take heed of it, I will tell you of tw roads of inquiry which offer themselves to the mind. The one wy that is and the other way that is not and that not-being must be, cannot be grasped by the mind | 5a. Parmenides |
| *for you cannot know not being and cannot express it | 5b. Parmenides |
| *Necessarily, therefore, either it simply Is or is simply is not. Stong Conviction will not let us think that anything springs from Being except itself. | 7. Parmenides... absolute monism -- being no change in the universe, being is all |
| *Man is the measure of all things: of things that are, that they are; of things that are not, that they are not | 1. Protagoras... We determine reality, Gods don't matter. The central importance is humans |
| *Reality (matter) is essntially the sum of all the seeming that it has for any and al persons | 3. Protagoras |
| As for the gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist; nor, if they exist of what form they are. For the obstacles to that sort of knowledge are many, including that obscurity of the matter and brevity of human life. | 6. Protagoras |
| *Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger | 1. Thrasymachus... this is an extension of the universal ego and sophism, works for countries since 400 BCE |
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