Eleanor

“Academy, Plato’s own school, for hundreds of years – until it came to an end in the first century BC – took its task to be that of arguing against the views of others without relying on a position of one’s own.”
― Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“the argument goes, the same thing can’t be thus affected in opposing ways at the same time, so it must be that it is not the person as a whole who is in this contradictory state, but different parts of him which do the pulling in opposite directions. When I reflect correctly, then, I can see that I don’t want to drink and want not to drink; rather, part of me, which Plato calls desire, wants to drink, and another part of me, which is reason (my ability to grasp and act on reasons), is motivated to refrain.”
― Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“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

“Plato takes the phenomenon of psychological conflict, being torn between two options, to show that the person so torn is not really a unity; he is genuinely torn between the motivational pull of two or more distinct parts of the soul.”
― Julia Annas, Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction