Myth Of Er Quotes

Zoeken naar het ware wil niet zeggen zoeken naar het wenselijke. Als men zich, om de angstige vraag:'Wat zou dan het leven zijn?' te ontgaan, net als een ezel met de rozen van de illusie moet voeden, dan zal de absurde geest, in plaats van in de leugen te berusten, er de voorkeur aan geven, zonder te sidderen.

Ogres bumbled, and erred, but their weaknesses were not hidden and this helped them, in the long run.

We assume that young women know what to do for their bodies and are just behaving irresponsibly. Unfortunately, I’m too often reminded that, in fact, they don’t have the information they need to make responsible choices, and that their sexual decisions are sometimes not just spontaneous but also based on myths and half-truths.

And then, as the religions fall into disuse, or the stories cease to be seen as the literal truth, they become myths. And the myths compost down to dirt, and become a fertile ground for other stories and tales which blossom like wildflowers. Cupid and Psyche is retold and half-forgotten and remembered again and becomes Beauty and the Beast. Anansi the African Spider God becomes Br’er Rabbit, whaling away at the tar baby.

dat ook het meest sluitende systeem en het meest universele rationalisme ten slotte altijd stoot op het irrationele van het menselijk denken. Geen enkele ironische evidentie, geen enkele belachelijke tegenspraak, die de rede in diskrediet brengt, ontgaat hem. Slechts één ding interesseert hem en wel de uitzondering, of deze nu door de geschiedenis van het hart of van de geest voorkomt.[...] Hij stelt om te beginnen vast dat er geen absolute waarheid bestaat...

I am a member of the Societe Meteorologique de France and of the American Meteorological Society. As a Professor of Climatology, my employer is the French Republic, which has adopted the official religion of 'climate change', to which I do not adhere. I am not beholden to any 'slush fund'. and my Laboratoire de Climatologie, Risques, Environnement (LORE),

I make the people who sign-off on the crew lists feel insecure. They need a preserver of the myth. But when there is a particularly tricky problem at hand, something that must be accomplished despite bad odds and extreme liability, I'm always the one who gets the call. They trust me with their lives, but not their jobs.

One might fall into the crib with scabulous emotions. Suddenly, we could become quantum nihilists. By being idlewild, our souls would be aubadoir. Ne'er-be-gone to the God of myth. MARU MORI, for conclusion; come unto me.

Det er påvist sykdommer av alkohol i alle kroppens organer unntatt i det indre øret.

Ein Mensch ist mehr Mensch durch das, was er verschweigt, als durch das, was er sagt.

Manchmal stürzen die Kulissen ein. Aufstehen, Straßenbahn, vier Stunden Büro oder Fabrik, Essen, Straßenbahn, vier Stunden Arbeit, Essen, Schlafen, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, Samstag, immer derselbe Rhythmus - das ist meist ein bequemer Weg. Eines Tages aber erhebt sich das »Warum«, und mit diesem Überdruss, in den sich Erstaunen mischt, fängt alles an. »Fängt an« - das ist wichtig. Der Überdruss steht am Ende der Handlungen eines mechanischen Lebens, gleichzeitig leitet er aber auch eine Bewusstseinserregung ein. Er weckt das Bewusstsein und fordert den nächsten Schritt heraus. Der nächste Schritt ist die unbewusste Rückkehr in die Kette oder das endgültige Erwachen. Schließlich führt dieses Erwachen mit der Zeit zur Entscheidung: Selbstmord oder Wiederherstellung. An sich hat der Überdruss etwas Widerwärtiges. Hier jedoch muss ich den Schluss ziehen, dass er gut ist. Denn mit dem Bewusstsein fängt alles an, und nur durch das Bewusstsein hat etwas Wert.

me through, gentlemen and – er – madam. Your reaction was not unexpected. Let me put it this way: Fort Knox is a bank like any other bank. But it is a much bigger bank and its protective devices are correspondingly stronger and more ingenious. To penetrate them will require corresponding strength and ingenuity. That is the only novelty in my project – that it is a big one. Nothing else. Fort Knox is no more impregnable than other fortresses. No doubt we all thought the Brink organization was unbeatable until half a dozen determined men robbed a Brink armoured car of a million dollars back in 1950. It is impossible to escape from Sing Sing and yet men have found ways of escaping from it. No, no, gentlemen. Fort Knox is a myth like other myths. Shall I proceed to the plan?’ Billy Ring hissed through his teeth, like a Japanese, when he talked. He said harshly, ‘Listen, shamus, mebbe ya didn’t know it, but the Third Armoured is located at Fort Knox. If that’s a myth, why don’t the Russkis come and take the United States the next time they have a team over here playing ice-hockey?’ Goldfinger smiled thinly. ‘If I may correct you without weakening your case, Mr Ring, the following is the order of battle of the military units presently quartered at Fort Knox. Of the Third Armoured Division, there is only the Spearhead, but there are also the 6th Armoured Cavalry Regiment, the 15th Armour Group, the

His efforts can be seen by now to have rested on a profound understanding or, at least, a remarkable intuitive grasp of the limitations of “Persia,” that is, of classical aristocracy. He knew, for example, that the loyalty it demanded, like that for any particular, nonuniversal society, rested on an arbitrary division of mankind into fellow citizens (friends) and strangers (enemies actual or potential). (Compare Plato’s analysis in the Republic of the defects of justice understood as helping friends and harming enemies.) He knew likewise that the class hierarchy without which, in the premodern condition of material scarcity, the unique Persian system of public education could not have been supported, rested not on merit or natural capacity but on the indefensible criterion of inherited wealth. (In the Republic, Plato was able to remove this stain from classical aristocracy only by the extreme expedient of abolishing the family.) These defects of the old order were to be removed in the new by the creation of a universal (and therefore all-inclusive) empire and by making positions of wealth, honor, and responsibility within it depend upon merit alone. Above all, Cyrus knew or sensed the weakness of that attachment to virtue and virtuous deeds as ends in themselves which the old Persian education prided itself on producing, an attachment on which the preference for old Persia and its way of life depended. To speak now only of the attachment itself and not of the virtue that was its object, it was not truly the result of education in the strict sense of the word. Rather, it had been beaten into the Persian peers both literally and figuratively (through praise and blame). And an attachment so produced is vulnerable to temptation. (Compare what Plato suggests, in the myth of Er which concludes the Republic, by his tale of the choice of lives.) Still, in providing that temptation, in suggesting to the peers that they no longer pursue what they take to be virtue for its own sake but rather for its rewards, Cyrus would appear to be more of a corrupter than a reformer.