Anurag

“The best any of us can do is to find the most plausible and appropriate beliefs. But that doesn’t stop Xenophanes from being pretty tough on people who fall short of these most plausible and appropriate beliefs, especially on a topic as important as the divine. We don’t know, maybe, that God thinks and can shake all things by thinking, but we should believe it. Whereas we sure as heck shouldn’t believe that God commits adultery.”
― Peter Adamson, Classical Philosophy

“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“After all, these philosophers lived in a time before electricity, and hence before light pollution. If you walked outside at night, even within the walls of a big city like Athens, you would see a stunning night sky, with more stars than most Europeans ever get to see nowadays. If anything in the world of the ancient Greeks cried out for explanation, it was the heavens.”
― Peter Adamson, Classical Philosophy

“But Parmenides and Heraclitus do agree about one thing: everyone else apart from them is completely confused, unaware of the nature of reality. Pre-Socratics were rarely short on self-confidence.”
― Peter Adamson, Classical Philosophy