The Just City
Jo Walton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Know Thyself. It’s good advice. Know yourself. You are worth knowing. Examine your life. The unexamined life is not worth living. Be aware that other people have equal significance. Give them the space to make their own choices, and let their choices count as you want them to let your choices count. Remember that excellence has no stopping point and keep on pursuing it. Make art that can last and that says something nobody else can say. Live the best life you can, and become the best self you can. You cannot know which of your actions is the lever that will move worlds. Not even Necessity knows all ends. Know yourself.”
“There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.”
“You don’t want anything from them except for them to exist and you to see them sometimes and talk to them, and maybe for them to like you back.”
“You can’t trust everything that ass Plato wrote,” Sokrates said.”
“There will always be some who see excellence and envy it instead of striving to emulate it.”
“What was interesting was seeing how much of it could work, how much it really would maximize justice, and how it was going to fail. We could learn a lot from that.”
“Nothing mortal can last. At best it can leave legends that can bear fruit in later ages.”
“We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends.”
“Know yourself. You are worth knowing. Examine your life. The unexamined life is not worth living. Be aware that other people have equal significance. Give them the space to make their own choices, and let their choices count as you want them to let your choices count. Remember that excellence has no stopping point and keep on pursuing it. Make art that can last and that says something nobody else can say. Live the best life you can, and become the best self you can. You cannot know which of your actions is the lever that will move worlds.Not even Necessity knows all ends. Know yourself.”
“I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.”
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Book Keywords:
apollo, friendship, love, socrates, philosophy, logic, agape
