- Two kinds of readiness are constantly needed: (i) to do
only what the logos of authority and law directs, with the
good of human beings in mind; (ii) to reconsider your
position, when someone can set you straight or convert you to
his. But your conversion should always rest on a conviction
that it’s right, or benefits others—nothing else. Not because
it’s more appealing or more popular. - You have a mind?
—Yes.
Well, why not use it? Isn’t that all you want—for it to do
its job?
- You have functioned as a part of something; you will
vanish into what produced you.
Or be restored, rather.
To the logos from which all things spring.
By being changed.
- Many lumps of incense on the same altar. One crumbles
now, one later, but it makes no difference. - Now they see you as a beast, a monkey. But in a week
they’ll think you’re a god—if you rediscover your beliefs