Quote Analysis thread

[Farnan]

Here is how this will work, a poster will post a quote that deals with their personal philosophy and other members will analyse it. Once the discussion dies down, another member will post one of theirs.

Here is a quote that deals with my personal philosopy:

"Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness." - General Nathaniel Greene

[Gaidin]

Way too much information sifting for getting one simple idea from one sentence. Keep ethical motivations with you as you gain knowledge.

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -Lewis Carroll

[Denny Crane!]

Here is how this will work, a poster will post a quote that deals with their personal philosophy and other members will analyse it. Once the discussion dies down, another member will post one of theirs.

Here is a quote that deals with my personal philosopy:

"Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness." - General Nathaniel Greene

Its very socratic, that the knowledgable life is a virtuous one, that knowledge of virtue precedes the practice of it, but veers away when it brings into the fore integrity seperating the socratic ideal by virtue of some objective notion of integrity suggesting a seperate moral basis. I prefer the socratic ideal that no one is involuntarily good or involuntarily bad and that if we must introduce an objective level then it should be a socially defined one and in that way allowing for a rational moral basis.

Way too much information sifting for getting one simple idea from one sentence. Keep ethical motivations with you as you gain knowledge.

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -Lewis Carroll

Care to explain the quote?

[Gaidin]

Care to explain the quote?

I had to read it 3 times the first time I saw it.

"If it was so, it might be;"
-If it was, it could still be.

"if it were so, it would be"
-If it is, it is

"as it isn't, it ain't."
-It isn't, so it's not(extrapolate to if it isn't, then it isn't)

"That's logic."
-weeeeeee

[Zenith Darksea]

Well, as an Orthodox Christian, I have a few gems such as these floating about my head:

Lord", I say. "Thou art merciful. My soul knoweth thee. Tell me what I must do that my soul may grow humble?"
And the Lord answered me in my soul:
"Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not."
- St Silouan the Athonite

Orthodox Spirituality is knowledge acquired through suffering rather than through learning.
-Blessed Eldress Gavrilia of Athens

It is better to listen than to speak.
- ?St Matrona of Moscow

Die daily, that you might live eternally, for one who fears God will live forever.
- St Anthony the Great