From Socrates to Sartre Quotes

“Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said, Let Newton be, and all was light.”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“Who guards the guardians?”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“None is absolutely true.”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“One cannot step twice into the same river,”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“perception”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“These three laws, by which our thinking is naturally impelled from one idea to another which resembles it, or which is next to it, or is its effect—these three laws characterize all our mental operations, including all our reasoning, and specifically they characterize our scientific ideas. Of the three laws of association of ideas, the association or connection of ideas by cause and effect, says Hume, is the most powerful connection between our ideas.”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“The Good Life is not the life of reason alone, but that of the dominance of reason over the spirited energies and the bodily appetites.”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“Drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, … at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is the science of beauty everywhere.”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

“only a fool obeys the law if it is against his own advantage.”
― T.Z. Lavine, From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest