Polus Quotes on Knowledge
Polus of Acragas, a pupil of Gorgias, is preserved chiefly through Plato's Gorgias, in which he articulates the sophistic conception of rhetoric against which the Socratic distinction between true art (technē) and mere knack is developed. Polus treats the orator's command of persuasion as itself a form of knowledge — and, indeed, as the highest civic accomplishment, since it secures power over the assembly and the courts — while Socrates argues that rhetoric without justice is a counterfeit of statecraft analogous to cookery's counterfeit of medicine. The dialogue's portrait remains the principal source for Polus's epistemological position.
Quotes
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Attributed to Polus:
“Rhetoric is the science of persuasion, and persuasion is the secret of every regime.”
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“Ani kura za darmo nie gdacze.”
Even the hen doesn't lay for free. | English equivalent: Nothing for nothing. -
“English equivalent: Nothing for nothing.”
Ani kura za darmo nie gdacze. -
“Za dziękuje nic się nie kupuje. ( See in the Z section )”
Your "Thank you" is fine but it will not help me pay my bills. | English equivalent: Nothing for nothing. | Strauss, Emanuel (1994). "955" . Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs . II . Routledge. p. 798. ISBN 978-1-136-78971-7 . -
“Your "Thank you" is fine but it will not help me pay my bills.”
Za dziękuje nic się nie kupuje. ( See in the Z section ) -
“English equivalent: Nothing for nothing.”
Za dziękuje nic się nie kupuje. ( See in the Z section ) -
“Anielskie usta a szatanskie serce .”
English equivalent: A honey tongue and a heart of gall. | Strauss, Emanuel (1998). Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs (Abbreviated ed.). Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 0415160502 . -
“English equivalent: A honey tongue and a heart of gall.”
Anielskie usta a szatanskie serce .