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"Geometry is dumb. When am I ever going to need to know this? Cutting a rectangle in mean and extreme ratio? Really? That's going to help me get a job?" Euclid, The Elements of Geometry

#notaristotelian #Euclid #p sure he liked geometry #misquotes of ancient Greek philosophers #I don't think anyone even knows I am doing this #oh well I am amused

"Women are the coolest. They should rule the world." Aristotle, The Politics

#Aristotle #nonaristotelian #misquotes of ancient Greek philosophers #what he actually said was that women were natural slaves #and fuck that noise

"This wine tastes funny." -Socrates, Plato's Crito

#Plato #Socrates #misquotes of ancient Greek philosophers #hemlock

"So you want the great warrior Achilles to race a tortoise? Well, OK. You go right ahead and ask him." --Parmenides to Zeno of Elea.

#pre socratics #not actually philosophy #we'd have to dicsuss logic and the nature of reductio ad absurdum #and who wants to do that?

"Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't." -Pythagoras, autos ephe

#Pythagoras #I don't know what I'm even doing anymore #notaristotelian

"Get in loser. We're going shopping." -Plato

#misquotes of ancient Greek philosophers #Plato

"Dude. I am so totally wasted. Let's go chat up some ladies." Socrates, The Lysis

#Socrates #nonaristotelian #misquotes of ancient Greek philosophers

"Plato's Forms are totally awesome." -Aristotle's Physics

#Aristotle #the physics #truth above friendship actually #Plato #notaristotelian

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