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Teles on cutting out an eye...

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angellous_evangellous

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Just thought I would share a quote from the Cynic philosopher Teles, ca 300 BCE

"if somone loses an eye, it will be absurd is he asks that the other be cut out as well..."
 
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Bishka

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angellous_evangellous said:
Just thought I would share a quote from the Cynic philosopher Teles, ca 300 BCE

"if somone loses an eye, it will be absurd is he asks that the other be cut out as well..."
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I like it.
 
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may

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the eye is an important channel of communication to the mind and the heart. What it focuses on can strongly influence our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Using illustrative language, was one of the things Jesus did , he used many illustrations, it did not mean litrally
 
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angellous_evangellous

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may said:
the eye is an important channel of communication to the mind and the heart. What it focuses on can strongly influence our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Using illustrative language, was one of the things Jesus did , he used many illustrations, it did not mean litrally
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Cicero, On Laws 1.9

With respect to man this same bountiful nature hath not merely allotted him a subtle and active spirit, but moreover favoured him with physical senses, like so many guardians and messengers. Thus has she improved our understanding in relation to many obscure principles, and laid the foundation of practical knowledge; and in all respects moulded our corporeal faculties to the service of our intellectual genius. For while she has debased the forms of other animals, who live to eat rather than eat to live, she has bestowed on man an erect stature, and an open countenance, and thus prompted him to the contemplation of heaven, the ancient home of his kindred immortals. So exquisitely, too, hath she fashioned the features of the human face, as to make them symbolic of the most recondite thoughts and sentiments. As for our two eloquent eyes (oculi nimis arguti), do they not speak forth every impulse and passion of our souls? And that which we call expression, in which we infinitely excel all the inferior animals, how marvellously it delineates all our speculations and feelings! Of this the Greeks well knew the meaning, though they had no word for it.
 
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may

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silly me , when i saw the quote about the eye i thought of this verse in the bible.If, now, that right eye of yours is making you stumble, tear it out and throw it away from you. For it is more beneficial to you for one of your members to be lost to you than for your whole body to be pitched into Ge·hen´na. matthew 5;29 one of Jesus illustrations
 
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