Alan Watts Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Latin Quotes

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject. So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn't expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.

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Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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From the egg to the apple.

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The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

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One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

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Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

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Times change, and we change with them.

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The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

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The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

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Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.

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More law, less justice.

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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

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Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

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