Eleanor

“This picture implies, though, that reason has a kind of internal hold on the other parts – it asks them, so to speak, to do things in terms that they can understand and agree to. But then won’t the parts other than reason have to have a kind of reason of their own, in order to understand and go along with what the reason part demands? And then won’t all the parts have to have their own reasons? – which makes it unclear how we are supposed to have found a part of the soul which is separate from reason.”
― Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“who is ever still, alone, mindful of their thoughts, and focused on nothing?”
― Al K. Line, Wildcat Wizard Complete Collection

“Sleep is such a beautiful thing, yet also a poignant reminder of the transient nature of a personal existence everyone seems to feel will continue forever. As if they can somehow avoid the inevitable and be the first person to live until the end of all things.”
― Al K. Line, Wildcat Wizard Complete Collection

“some of Plato’s most famous passages about the divided soul he represents the parts of the soul other than reason as non-human animals.”
― Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction