THE  PAST

June 4, 2012  Quote for Today

"There is one thing 

God cannot do: 

change the past."

Agathon [c.445-c.400 B.C.]  Most of what this Athenian playwright wrote has been lost. This quote can be found in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.  

The painting on top is by Anselm Feurebach [1869].  It's a scene from the Symposium by Plato. Agathon is welcoming the drunken Alcibiades into his house.