“His screaming stallions maned with whistling wind.” WindWhistlingStallions Author:Anna Hempstead Branch
“Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.” FallBreakBallsTablesPoolFalling OffPool Table Author:Leo Durocher
“Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.” FeelsSoulEyeEssentialsOpeningEthicalPlatoCleansingAbstinenceAusterity Author:Thomas McEvilley
“In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.” SoulThreeSpeakDangerousObjectsTheoryPersonalitySensesRationalRealmsFacultyRepublicAmbitiousPlato Author:Thomas McEvilley
“Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.” MenDoeFoundSoundModernAdviceTraditionReasonableScholarPlatoAsceticismReasonable Man Author:Thomas McEvilley
“To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.” SoulDesireSpecialPlatoAttainmentHindrance Author:Thomas McEvilley
“It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in that case he seems naively over-impressed by rather ordinary thought processes.” IfsWritingReasonSeemsProcessCasesOrdinaryIntuitionImpressedMysticalPlatoDiscussingThought Process Author:Thomas McEvilley
“Death is nothing other than a different way of being with an enhanced and broadened consciousness, which is everywhere at once because it is no longer tied to a body.” WayDifferentBodyConsciousnessDifferent WaysTied Author:Pim van Lommel