Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
PlatoRead
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Interpretation
Wonder ignites philosophical inquiry and contemplation.
This quote by Plato emphasizes that the essence of philosophy is rooted in wonder, suggesting that the curiosity and awe we feel about the world around us lead to deeper understanding and exploration of complex ideas. It captures the notion that philosophical thought begins when we question and marvel at our existence and the nature of reality.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to inspire students to ask questions about the world.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
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