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super-clarice commented on the word plato's rooster
Diogenes threw a plucked rooster into Plato's school and exclaimed: "Here you have Plato's human being."
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"The blows, as you see, have agreed with me; the roseate supersensual mist has dissolved, and no one can ever make me believe again that these 'sacred apes of Benares'5 or Plato's rooster 6 are the image of God."
Venus in Furs
May 27, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word plato's rooster
This came, we should note, of the definition of man as "a featherless biped".
May 27, 2009