Memory Quote by Maggie Nelson

“Socrates did not think much of books and the written word; as a proponent of oral storytelling, he thought the written word would kill…

— Nicholas Kardaras

“Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure.…

— Maggie Nelson

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of…

— Samuel Johnson

“We know so little about Socrates but somehow we still remember he existed; more amazing yet, is how the meaning of ethics has completely…

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.”

— Troy DeNuthe

“A perfect memory is the enemy of thought.”

— Esther Murphy Arthur

“Between the lines Phaedrus read no doubts, no sense of awe, only the eternal smugness of the professional academician.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

— Plato

“That Socrates should ever have been so treated by the Athenians!" Slave! why say "Socrates"? Speak of the thing as it is: That ever…

— Epictetus