He was known as the " weeping philosopher " and died of hydropsy, a swelling due to abnormal accumulation of fluid beneath the skin.

Later he was referred to as the " weeping philosopher ," as opposed to Democritus, who is known as the " laughing philosopher.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

# Botched Basement-After a renovation to lower a basement floor goes bad and the contractor skips town, Mike Holmes makes it right by installing an interior weeping tile system and fixing a dangerous electrical mess.

The work ends with Orc's appearance and Urizen weeping.

A number of cultivars of the common hazel and filbert are grown as ornamental plants in gardens, including forms with contorted stems ( C. avellana ' Contorta ', popularly known as " Harry Lauder's walking stick " from its gnarled appearance ); with weeping branches ( C. avellana ' Pendula '); and with purple leaves ( C. maxima ' Purpurea ').

The drooping branchlets give the tree a graceful weeping appearance.

The tone of placid acceptance is underscored by three Chinese characters that translate as " don't help to grow that which will grow of itself " followed by another appearance of the Greek word for weeping in the context of remembered places.

* In the 2002 alternate history novel Ruled Britannia, Edward Kelley was burned in the first chapter, weeping and trying to call to William Shakespeare for help.

He ceased weeping.

From the convulsive quivers of the man's shoulders it was plain he had resumed the weeping.

The beehive voices, for no one could bear silence, drowned out the sound of Mrs. Lincoln's weeping.

whereupon Parker broke down into convulsions of weeping and rushed out of the room, though not out of the Fellowship.

People stand at the wall giving vent to their feelings, weeping, pounding it with their fists, pleading for loved ones.

The heavens refused to give up their weeping.

Public displays such as public weeping for dead celebrities and participation in demonstrations may be influenced by a desire to be seen as altruistic.

He was finally reacquainted with his son Sulayman, whom he last saw weeping on the banks of the Euphrates with his sisters.

The Iliad reduced the figure of the dread goddess to that of a girl, who, having been thrashed by Hera, climbs weeping into the lap of Zeus.

In chapter 1 the prophet dwells on the manifold miseries oppressed by which the city sits as a solitary widow weeping sorely.

Nor did the tears and weeping of the people, as they implored his aid, deter him from giving the signal of departure and receiving into his army all who would go with him.

This prompted his former admirer, Vladimir Nabokov, to mock Pasternak as a " weeping Bolshevik " and " Emily Dickinson in trousers.

Upon his arrival there, his pregnant second wife, Zinaida Pasternak threw herself on the floor, weeping and accusing her husband of risking the destruction of their family.

During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers.

Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came out to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man.

" Yates then told Brooks that, " Country singers always seem to be weeping over the dead dog and things ," and also remarked, " I thought you'd come in here and twiddle your pistol around and be impressed.

The next morning, Hermóðr begs Hel to allow Baldr to ride home with him, and tells her about the great weeping the Æsir have done upon Baldr's death.

" If Stobaeus writes correctly, Sotion in the early 1st century CE was already combining the two in the imaginative duo of weeping and laughing philosophers: " Among the wise, instead of anger, Heraclitus was overtaken by tears, Democritus by laughter.

Thus accounts such as that of the miraculous " Image Not Made by Hands ", and the weeping and moving " Mother of God of the Sign " of Novgorod are accepted as fact: " Church Tradition tells us, for example, of the existence of an Icon of the Savior during His lifetime ( the " Icon-Made-Without-Hands ") and of Icons of the Most-Holy Theotokos immediately after Him.

According to the Midrash, the plural form of the word " weeping " indicates the double sorrow that Rebecca also died at this time.

The next day Lucretia dressed in black, went to her father's house in Rome and cast herself down in the suppliant's position ( embracing the knees ), weeping.

Philosopher Max Stirner, in his book The Ego and Its Own, was the first philosopher to call himself an egoist, though his writing makes clear that he desired not a new idea of morality ( ethical egoism ), but rather a rejection of morality ( amoralism ), as a nonexistent and limiting “ spook ”; for this, Stirner has been described as the first individualist anarchist.

Moreover, in the first century A. D., the Greco-Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria — who was himself probably a practitioner of pankration — makes a statement that could be an allusion to preliminary contests in which an athlete would participate and then collect his strength before coming forward fresh in the major competition.

* Plotinus, Greek philosopher, escapes the bloodshed that accompanies the murder of Gordianus III and makes his way to Antioch.

Another criticism of the book, made by the philosopher Mary Midgley in her book Evolution as a Religion, is that it discusses philosophical and moral questions that go beyond the biological arguments that Dawkins makes.

Spade attempts to explain himself to Brigid O ' Shaughnessy with the Flitcraft parable, in which Hammett makes an oblique reference to the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, but O ' Shaughnessy has no idea what he is getting at.

Although his writings are all commentaries on Aristotle and other authors, rather than original compositions, his intelligent and prodigious learning makes him the last great philosopher of pagan antiquity.

Gorampa Sonam Senge ( 1429-1489 ), an important philosopher in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism who established one of the definitive Tibetan understandings of Prasangika, therefore makes his ultimate truth a liberating insight that is free from grasping the mind.

By the 4th century BC, the philosopher Aristotle makes frequent reference to theory and literature concerning the relationship of appearance to character.

Thus the author supports his claims for Plato's various erotic relationships through his quotation of epigrams attributed to the philosopher ; and makes an extreme allegation that Periander committed incest with his own mother.

The late French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, makes mention of the film as an example of a new genre of " retro cinema " in his essay on history in the now foundational text, Simulacra and Simulation ( 1981 ):

Failing to do so makes bad company, and therefore those with specific interests and " love " of hobbies should keep their passions to those with kindred spirits (" A philosopher is company to a philosopher only " ( p. 51 )) or to themselves.

In this dialogue with philosopher Jaspers, Jaspers first makes the case that Christianity can not be understood apart from its mythical framework, and that myth is necessary form of communication through symbol.

Further, the Sophist – Statesman – Philosopher family makes particularly good sense in this order, as Schleiermacher also maintains that the two dialogues, Symposium and Phaedo show Socrates as the quintessential philosopher in life ( guided by Diotima ) and into death, the realm of otherness.

The Story of Shizumaat makes up the majority of the text, as Shizumaat is the Dracs ' most important philosopher.

Richard of St. Victor, with his emphasis on modes of thinking, makes an appearance, in close company with Eriugena, the philosopher of light.

Pharaoh is, in a sense, an extended study of the metaphor of society-as-organism that Prus had adopted from English philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer, and that Prus makes explicit in the introduction to the novel: " the Egyptian nation in its times of greatness formed, as it were, a single person, in which the priesthood was the mind, the pharaoh was the will, the people the body, and obedience the cement.

Having written extensively about ID, philosopher of science Robert Pennock says " When lobbying for ID in the public schools, wedge members sometimes deny that ID makes any claims about the identity of the designer.

Lessing opens the Laocoön ( 1766 ) by observing that " the first who compared painting with poetry &# 91 ; Simonides &# 93 ; was a man of fine feeling ," though, Lessing makes it clear, not a critic or philosopher.

Posidonius calls him Athenion and makes him a Peripatetic philosopher, whereas others, Pausanias, Appian, and Plutarch, call him Aristion, and Appian calls him an Epicurean philosopher.

Indeed, much like Stepan Trofimovich, Jeanson is an intellectual and philosopher who serves as a kind of father-figure / mentor to Véronique — and his early example as a supporter of terrorism makes him responsible for influencing much of the destruction which is to follow.

* The philosopher Daniel Dennett makes extended reference to the Rabbit novels in his paper " The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity ".