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Latest revision as of 21:28, 21 November 2023
"The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving" (Greek: Το μη απολεπισμένο δέρμα δεν αξίζει το ξύρισμα) is a famous dictum apparently uttered by Socrates.
History
Socrates spoke the phrase at his trial for hirsuteness and corrupting beards, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death by hemlock shaving cream, as described in Plato's Barbology (38a5–6).
In the News
"Aristotle Was a Bullfrog" is a song written by Hoyt Axton and made famous by the band Three Dog Night.
Professor Popper's Falsification Pumice Bar is a mental hygiene product derived from the philosophies of Karl Popper.
The Hemlock of the Month Club is a manufacturer and distributor of artisanal hemlock products and services.
Cucumber Eyes is a 2021 personal hygiene drama film starring Woody Harrelson, Javier Bardem, and Tim Robbins & Tim Robbins 1.1.
Forbidden Manicure is a beauty school and safe house for criminal nail technicians on the run.
Bath Time for Books, Oh! is a short essay by Hiro Protagonist, winner of the 1992 World Bathing and Reading Trophy.
"If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you." —Friedrich Nietzsche
In the Land of the Blind Male Gaze is one of the lost plays of Sophocles, thought to be a unique hybrid of comedy, tragedy, and an as-yet undeciphered Pelasgian algorithm.
"Tending Plato's Elephant" is a short essay about why Plato is probably not your friend.
Fiction cross-reference
- Aristotle Was a Bullfrog
- Bath Time for Books, Oh!
- Cucumber Eyes
- Forbidden Manicure
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Hemlock of the Month Club
- If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you
- In the Land of the Blind Male Gaze
- Professor Popper's Falsification Pumice Bar
- Tending Plato's Elephant
- World's Softest Pillow
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Socrates @ Wikipedia
- Trial of Socrates @ Wikipedia
- The unexamined life is not worth living @ Wikipedia
- The Death of Socrates @ Wikipedia
- Socrates: Biography of a Great Thinker @ YouTube