Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
AristotleRead
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Interpretation
Education enhances one's life in good times and provides support in tough times.
In this quote, Aristotle emphasizes the dual role of education as both a luxury that adorns our lives during prosperous moments and a vital support system when we face challenges. Education equips individuals with knowledge and skills that enrich their experiences and help them navigate difficulties, underscoring its importance throughout all phases of life.
In practice
This quote can be used during a graduation ceremony to highlight the value of education.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's homework for her. That's an energy drain. More times than she cares to remember, Nellie Wong, Asian American feminist writer, has been called by white women wanting a list of Asian American women who can give readings or workshops. We are in danger of being reduced to purveyors of resource lists.
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
Education is preparation to live completely.
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
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