Pre Socratic Quotes

#1. Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.

George Mason

#2. Maybe your standards are too high" Riley said.
"Just because they have abs and a penis doesn't mean I want to sleep with them.

Priscilla West

#3. I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

Barbara Lee

#4. Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3

William B. Irvine

#5. The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change ... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

Philip K. Dick

#6. Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

Erin Morgenstern

#7. The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Anthony Burgess

#8. May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

John Quincy Adams

#9. Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

Gustav Mahler