Important Quotes and Ideas Flashcards
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In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. on Friends and Enemies
“In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
Ayn Rand
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
Samuel Johnson
Ayn Rand on Avoiding Reality
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
Samuel Johnson on the true measure of a man
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower on privileges and principles
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln on power
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Harry Truman
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman on accomplishment
“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Winston Churchill on sucess
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Describe Plato’s parable “The Cave”
Summary:
- Prisoners in a cave only ever see shadows on a wall, believing them to be real.
- One prisoner is released and sees the real world
- This prisoner returns, he cannot discern the shadows, and is castigated.
- Parable is found in The Republic
- Parable is about Plato’s theory of Forms (Philosophers are the ones who see the real Forms)
What is Plato’s concept of justice (dikaiosune)?
- Plato in the Republic argues for the best way for humans to live.
- Assuming that the State is the individual writ large, the justice of the state gives insight on the justice of the individual
Who and what is Plato responding to in The Republic?
Thrasymachus and Glaucon, who claimed that justice is whatever serves the strongest and that morality is simply self-preservation
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
Albert Einstein
When did Plato die?
347 BCE
Albert Einstein on his intelligence
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
What is Aristotle’s most important contribution?
Nichomachean Ethics
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy
What is the most important word - and concept - in Nichomachean Ethics?
- “Eudaimonia,” the happy/successful life
- The highest degree of eudaimonia required money, looks, and ancestry
- Nevertheless, everyone can achieve relative eudaimonia
What did Tolstoy say about changing the world
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
