#lit

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#drawn #equivalent #mind #necessarily #reality

Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#criminals #humane #rehabilitation #religion #religion

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#beginning #believe #came #definite #end

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#beauty #else #everything #isolated #leads

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#actuality #after #appearance #become #been

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#being #definition #makes #man #matters

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#country #doing #done #hands #i

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ↗

— Aristotle

#alike #attained #best #chiefly #democracy

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#between #concern #dealing #fantasy #freaky

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#like #little #people #rich #themselves