"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." --J. K. Rowling
I wonder what she means? This is obviously not literally true. No matter how much nerve I have I can't fly like a bird, or like Harry Potter.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)
This betrays a very haughty attitude, unless it includes the recognition that the wise man is more like other men than different from them, which means that his judgment that other men are sick is recognized as provisional.
This betrays a very haughty attitude, unless it includes the recognition that the wise man is more like other men than different from them, which means that his judgment that other men are sick is recognized as provisional.
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