All Quotes

“Gauguin is referring to the painting Breton Calvary: The Green Christ .”

“freely and madly; you will make progress.. .Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately..”

“Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result. pp. 5 & 22: Gauguin is advising a fellow painter, 1885”

“A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it. p. 5: Letter to Emile Schuffenecker ,”

“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”

“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”

“I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music. Quoted in Parton Keese, The measure of greatness”

“SI Flashback: Soccer's greatest genius”

“When I was a professional footballer at Santos [where he played from 1956”

“[On his unpublicized work as a songwriter.] I didn't want the public to make the comparison between Pele the composer and Pele the footballer. That would have been a huge injustice”

“Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”

“Welcome into Pelé's World”

“Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory [...] Instead of 15 minutes of fame, he will have 15 centuries. Andy Warhol cited in Pelé's New York Times obituary”

“In the future everyone will be world”

“Con orden y tiempo se encuentra el secreto de hacerlo todo, y de hacerlo bien”

“El alma es un acorde; la disonancia, su enfermedad”

“El hombre es mortal por sus temores e inmortal por sus deseos”

“El principio es la mitad de todo”

“I shall assume that your silence gives consent . 435b”

“of the soul , their notion being that the soul is buried in the present life ; and again, because by its means the soul gives any signs which it gives, it is for this reason also properly called”

“If the very essence of knowledge changes, at the moment of the change to another essence of knowledge there would be no knowledge, and if it is always changing, there will always be no knowledge, and by this reasoning there will be neither anyone to know nor anything to be known. But if there is always that which knows and that which is known”

“No man of sense can put himself and his soul under the control of names... You must consider courageously and thoroughly and not accept anything carelessly. 440c”

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. 155d, The Dialogues of Plato , Volume 3, 1871, p. 377”

“It is impossible that evils should be done away with, for there must always be something opposed to the good; and they… must inevitably hover about mortal nature and this earth. Therefore we ought to try to escape from earth to the dwelling of the gods as quickly as we can; and to escape is to become like God, so far as this is possible… God is in no wise and in no manner unrighteous, but utterly and perfectly righteous, and there is nothing so like him as that one of us who in turn becomes most nearly perfect in righteousness. 176a”

“They do not know the penalty of unrighteousness, which is the thing they most ought to know. For it is not what they think it is”

“Perception and knowledge could never be the same. 186e”

“Neither perception nor true opinion, nor reason or explanation combined with true opinion could be knowledge… Then our art of midwifery declare to us that all the offspring that have been born are mere wind”

“I do see one large and grievous kind of ignorance, separate from the rest, and as weighty as all the other parts put together. Thinking that one knows a thing when one does not know it. Through this, I believe, all the mistakes of the mind are caused in all of us. 229c”

“I was Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. As reported by Heraclides Ponticus ( c . 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius ( Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers , "Pythagoras", Sect. 4), and quoted in Cosmic Optimism: A Study of the Interpretation of Evolution (1949) by Frederick William Conner”

“I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.”