Crantor Quotes on Knowledge
Crantor of Soli (c. 335 – c. 275 BCE), a member of the Old Academy under Polemon and the conventional author of the earliest surviving philosophical commentary on a Platonic dialogue (on the Timaeus), gave the early Hellenistic Academy one of its principal voices. The fragments and testimonia preserve the substance of the lost commentary, which interpreted the Timaeus's narrative of cosmological creation in non-temporal terms — the world is eternally generated rather than having come into being at a definite moment — and supplied much of the material on which the subsequent Middle Platonist commentaries would build. Crantor's consolatory On Grief, much used by Cicero, is the principal surviving testimony to his ethical writing.
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“Boris, Friedrich Hegel left us with two very important concepts. The first is that nothing great is ever accomplished without passion , and the second is "sonofa bitch ". One word, accent on the last syllable.”
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“Another of the dilemmas "in which we are all", Pavlo, is that there are too many damn machines around here. We're all missing The Big Picture.”
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“[Sid is going thru Harry's garbage] We shall be putting out another load on Friday, Sid. I'll try to leave something incriminating for you. Meantime, would you care for a cup of Mrs. Mallory's coffee? [Sid looks at Harry resignedly, hangs his head, and accompanies Harry into the house for coffee]”
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“An institute for advanced research with no funds for research. It's a provocative concept.”
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“[to the Site Review committee] As you know, our research here relates to the biochemical mechanisms of disease. And I am pleased to announce this morning that God has agreed to provide us with all the answers we need for just under $800,000.”
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“Mrs. Pruitt : [to Dr. Wolper] Dr. Novak called. He said that your proposed address to the Medical Congress on "The Profit Incentive in Misdiagnosis" is really not very funny at all.”
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