I LIKE SOCRATES

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Philosephers baffle me. I'd like to be one.

I LIKE SOCRATES

I LIKE SOCRATES 04-17--11

 

I like Socrates.

I am not sure why I like Socrates...

I just know that I do.

 

I like Aristotle, but

not as much as I like Socrates,

for no reason that I know of.

I'm just stubborn that way.

 

I take an ignorant jump,

due to lack of information

to fairly judge my situation.

It is one against the other.

 

I believe Plato was just

as important as Aristotle.

I'm not sure why I think this,

but I believe it's true.

 

Aristotle, Plato, Socrates,

I can never remember the order

in which they influenced and

mentored each other.

 

This trouble is always given me

when I judge myself too harshly

The fact that I like Socrates

should give me a savant's reprieve.

 

But that would be a shame to me

If I did not want to know

the reason I love one of them

anymore than the other

when, really I hardly

know any of them at all.

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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