What are some of your favorite Quotes

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by JJIII

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Aristotle

Oh c'mon, that might be a mistake, but the WORST? I figured that was too stupid even for Aristotle, and I was correct:

Misattributed[edit]

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

This first appears in 1974 in an explanation of Aristotle's politics in Time magazine, before being condensed to an epigram as "Aristotle's Axiom" in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle

[mpholland]

Originally Posted by JJIII

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Aristotle

I can see several paths to follow here. Women's suffrage, affirmative action, etc.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by mpholland

I can see several paths to follow here. Women's suffrage, affirmative action, etc.

Those are rather different things....

[mpholland]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Those are rather different things....

I forgot the sarcastic emoticon, but they were attempts to make unequal thing equal.

[donquixote99]

There is nothing in the universe equal to anything else.

You can have a pile of 100 tons of coal, and every piece will be different from every other piece.

Men and women are a lot more different than two pieces of coal. But, we can choose to disregard the differences, for the purpose of deciding who gets to vote, or own property, or be CEO, or otherwise enjoy 'equality' in our life together. We can choose to consider that what's important are the ways men and women are the same.

Or we may choose not to. The key is to make the best choices, and to understand that equality is never a property in nature. It's always a choice, made by abstracting away difference. So someone who points out inequality and thinks they have settled something is wrong. We still have to think about what is wanted, and how best to get it, and to choose.

[bobabode]

Πολλοὶ πολυμαθέες νοῦν οὐκ ἔχουσιν. Democritus.
'Many much-learned men have no intelligence.'

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Democritus

[bobabode]

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space, everything else is opinion."

Funny and happy go lucky guy that Democritus. He probably drank the retsina (a vile form of early Kool Aid).

[HarmanKardon]

On the way, Govinda said: "Siddhartha, you have learned more from the Samanas than I was aware. It is difficult, very difficult to hypnotize and old Samana. In truth, if you have stayed there, you have soon learned how to walk on water."

"I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha, "Let the old Samanas satisfy themselves with such arts."

(Hermann Hesse)

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Oh c'mon, that might be a mistake, but the WORST? I figured that was too stupid even for Aristotle, and I was correct:


https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by bobabode

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space, everything else is opinion."

Funny and happy go lucky guy that Democritus. He probably drank the retsina (a vile form of early Kool Aid).

Ha! Perfect! Thank-you!