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'''A man is known by the birds he flocks together'''. | '''A man is known by the birds he flocks together'''. | ||
== Plato == | |||
<blockquote>By Zeus, I shall tell you just how it looks to me, Socrates, he said. Some of us who are about the same age often meet together and keep up the old proverb. | |||
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—Allan Bloom translation | |||
== Aristotle == | |||
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“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ” | |||
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― [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristotle]], ''Politics'' | |||
== In the News == | |||
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File:Look Homeward, Ulysses - No, Dad - you are conflating Joyce with Wolfe.jpg|link=Look Homeward, Ulysses|'''''[[Look Homeward, Ulysses]]''''' is an epic documentary film about the collaborative novel of the same name by James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe. | |||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
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* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | * [[Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | * [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | ||
* ''[[Look Homeward, Ulysses (film)]]'' | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_feather_flock_together | |||
* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/birds_of_a_feather_flock_together#English | |||
[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:Aphorisms (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Aphorisms (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:Aristotle (nonfiction)]] | |||
[[Category:Birds (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Birds (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:Karl Jones (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Karl Jones (nonfiction)]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:10, 22 August 2021
A man is known by the birds he flocks together.
Plato
By Zeus, I shall tell you just how it looks to me, Socrates, he said. Some of us who are about the same age often meet together and keep up the old proverb.
—Allan Bloom translation
Aristotle
“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics
In the News
Look Homeward, Ulysses is an epic documentary film about the collaborative novel of the same name by James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe.