Glycon (A mad world)

by GateKeeper @, Thursday, June 19, 2014, 21:45 (3570 days ago) @ George Jelliss

Reading "Europe: A History" by Norman Davies 
> I came across a Greek quotation (p.115) 
> which in a translation by Peter Jay says: 
> 
> Everything's laughter, everything dust, everything nothing. 
> Out of unreason comes everything that exists.
> 
> I find this quite an attractive philosophy. 
> I may give up rationalism in favour of this. 
> A sort of paradoxicalism?
> 
> Apparently these two lines of verse 
> are all that is known of Glycon.
> 
> http://catalog.perseus.org/catalog/Mtlg0194Glyco
> 
> Anyone know any more?-Yep.-I settled on the notion that I die not knowing so enjoy and get the next generation ready. We all do this in a way; so why do we fight over such things?


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