Quotes About Gorgias

#1. I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.

Gorgias

#2. A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#3. To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. PLATO, GORGIAS

Julie Garwood

#4. My heart broke open and history fell in.

Salman Rushdie

#5. The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know.

Plato

#6. To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

Joseph Glanvill

#7. Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

Gorgias

#8. You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#9. As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

James Wolcott

#10. Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

Gorgias

#11. Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

Raoul Vaneigem

#12. Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

Gorgias

#13. Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have.

Andrew J. Patrick

#14. Not everybody benefits from a misspent youth.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

Gorgias

#16. I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago. The less said about that the better.

Andy Weir

#17. But if love is a human sickness and a mental weakness, it must not be blamed as mistake, but claimed as misfortune.

Gorgias Of Leontini

#18. There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.

Niels Bohr

#19. Bad guys need love too.

Denzel Washington

#20. Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

Gorgias

#21. Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

Pierre Corneille

#22. I believe it was Gorgias who was first to posit the impossibility of ever prooving anything - in which case, it might as well have been me to first propose this idea, just now.

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#23. The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

Gorgias

#24. Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.

Louise Gluck

#25. I'm all about fashion, cheeseburgers and bright-red lipstick.

Scarlett Johansson