North

---

Northern

Winds

---

In Greek mythology,

the northern wind

is the god of winter,

embodying the cold

and harsh conditions of that season.

---

Singularity

---

Socrates was a Greek philosopher

from Athens who is credited

as the founder of Western philosophy.

He authored no texts

and is known mainly

through his student Plato.

The Stoics

relied heavily on Socrates,

assigning virtue as a crucial role

in attaining happiness.

Socrates died in Athens

after a trial for impiety

and the corruption of the young.

He spent his last day in prison

among friends and followers

who offered him a route to escape,

which he refused.

He died the next morning,

in accordance with his sentence,

after drinking poison hemlock.

His last words were,

“Don't forget

to pay the debt.”

---

the Nothing

---

No bad can happen

to a good man,

either in life

or after death

He and his

are not neglected

by the gods.

He is a man of courage

who does not run away,

but remains at his post

and fights against the enemy.

One who is injured

ought not to

return the injury.

For on no account

can it be right

to do an injustice.

It is not right

to return an injury,

or to do harm to any man,

however much we have

suffered from him

Employ your time

in improving yourself.

Let him

that would move the world

first move himself.

It is not

living that matters,

but living rightly.

Not life,

but good life,

is to be chiefly valued.

He is richest

who is content

with the least,

for content

is the wealth of nature.

The greatest way

to live with honor

is to be

what we pretend to be.

Be as you wish to seem.

---

Wisdom begins in wonder.

True wisdom

comes to each of us

when we realize how little

we understand about

life,

ourselves,

&

the world around us.

To know,

is to know

that you know nothing.

That is the meaning

of true knowledge.

---

The unexamined life

is not worth living.

Once made equal to man,

woman becomes his superior.

A system of morality

which is based on

relative emotional values

is a mere illusion,

a thoroughly vulgar conception

which has nothing sound in it

and nothing true.

False words

are not only harmful

in themselves,

but they infect the soul

with harm

By all means,

marry.

If you get a good wife,

you'll become happy.

If you get a bad one,

you'll become a philosopher.

As to marriage or celibacy,

let a man take

which course he will,

he will be sure to repent.

Beware the barrenness

of a busy life.

Worthless people

live only to eat and drink.

People of worth

eat and drink only to live.

Where there is reverence

there is fear,

but there is not reverence

everywhere that there is fear.

Fear presumably

has a wider extension

than reverence.

From the deepest desires

often come the deadliest hate.

---

Duality

---

Plato is considered

a foundational thinker

in Western philosophy.

Along with his teacher Socrates,

and his student Aristotle,

Plato is a central figure in the history

of Western philosophy.

Plato's most famous contribution

is the theory of forms,

which denies the reality

of the material world,

considering it only

an image or copy

of the real world.

---

the Idealist

---

To know thyself

is the beginning of wisdom,

said my teacher,

Socrates

Man,

a being

in search of meaning.

Wonder is the feeling

of the philosopher,

and philosophy begins

in wonder.

Wisdom alone is the science

of other sciences.

Twice and thrice over,

as they say,

good is it to repeat

and review what is good.

Necessity,

the mother of invention.

The first and greatest victory

is to conquer yourself.

To be conquered by yourself

is of all things

most shameful and vile.

The beginning

is the most important part

of the work.

The man who makes everything

that leads to happiness

depends upon himself,

and not upon other men,

has adopted the very best plan

for living happily.

---

When the mind is thinking

it is talking to itself.

Life must be lived as play.

Music gives soul to the universe,

wings to the mind,

flight to the imagination,

and charm and gaiety

to life and to everything.

Music is the movement of sound

to reach the soul

for the education of its virtue.

---

Wise men speak because

they have something to say;

Fools because

they have to say something.

Ignorance,

the root and stem

of all evil.

Knowledge

which is acquired

under compulsion

obtains no hold on the mind.

What we call learning

is only a process of recollection

and memorizing

The real tragedy of life

is when men are afraid of the light.

To prefer evil to good

is not in human nature.

He who commits injustice

is ever made more wretched

than he who suffers it.

To go to the world below,

having a soul which is like

a vessel full of injustice,

is the last and worst

of all things to become

---

Trinity

---

Aristotle was an

Ancient Greek philosopher

and polymath.

Aristotle is credited

with the earliest systematic study

of logic.

His writings cover a broad range

of subjects which set

the groundwork for the development

of modern science.

At around eighteen years old,

he joined Plato's Academy in Athens

and remained there until

the age of thirty seven.

Shortly after Plato died,

Aristotle left Athens,

at the request of Philip II,

and tutored his son

Alexander the Great.

Aristotle was a virtue ethicist

who considered ethics

to be a practical

rather than theoretical study.

One aimed at becoming good

and doing good

rather than knowing

for its own sake.

---

the Mind

---

Plato is dear to me,

but dearer still is truth.

Moral excellence

is not an act.

It is a habit.

Men acquire a particular quality

by constantly acting

in a particular way.

We become

by performing actions.

Pleasure in the job

puts perfection in the work.

Well begun

is half done.

The energy of the mind

is the essence of life.

He who can be,

 and therefore is.

What lies in our power to do,

lies in our power not to do.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

---

It is the mark

of an educated mind

to be able to entertain a thought

without accepting it

---

The wise man

does not expose himself

needlessly to danger.

 

There are few things

for which he cares sufficiently.

 

But he is willing,

in great crises,

to give even his life.

Knowing

that under certain conditions

it is not worthwhile to live.

Suffering becomes beautiful

when anyone bears great calamities

with cheerfulness,

not through insensibility

but through greatness of mind.

Courage is the first

of human qualities

because it is the quality

which guarantees others

You will never do anything

in this world

without courage.

It is the greatest quality

of the mind

next to honor.

Men are swayed

more by fear

than by reverence.

---

Timeline

Started: 2/10/2025

Completed: 7/15/2025

Days: 155 days

Greek Philosophy

---