Kalon

The strong necessity of suicide had passed away; life, even for me, might be rendered tolerable by the sovereign panacea of opium, the only true minister to a mind diseased, the sought 'kalon' found. ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)

The kalon tripa gaining greater international recognition could ultimately put pressure on Beijing to moderate its policies within Tibet itself. ❋ Ellen Bork (2011)

Lobsang Sangay won election in April as kalon tripa, or chief minister, and is due to take office next month in Dharamsala, India, the seat of the exile government. ❋ Ellen Bork (2011)

I imagine Lobsang Sangay, who is somebody who is well traveled, who has lived in the West, will spend much more time as an international advocate for Tibet than previous kalon tripas have. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Certainly as the Dalai Lama had a very close relationship with the current kalon tripa, Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, and raised his visibility and ceded a great deal of authority to him. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Lobsang Sangay, a scholar at the prestigious Harvard Law School in the United States, has been elected kalon tripa, or prime minister, of the Tibetan government-in-exile. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Kelsang Yangkyi Takla, kalon (minister) for the Department of Information and International Relations of the Tibetan Government-in-exile on Wednesday congratulated the president-elect Barack Obama on winning the historic election to the post of president of the United States. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These are the first two of the ˜Stoic paradoxes™ discussed by Cicero in his short work of that title: that only what is noble or fine or morally good (kalon) is good at all, and that the possession (and exercise) of the virtues is both necessary and sufficient for happiness. ❋ Baltzly, Dirk (2008)

The English “beauty” only approximates to to kalon. ❋ Pappas, Nickolas (2008)

TEXT. homôs de kai en toutois dialampei to kalon, epeidan pherê tis eukolôs pollas kai megalas atychias, mê di analgêsian, alla gennadas ôn kai megalopsychos. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Being kalon is the primary feature of each of the virtues, and, by implication, the dialogue points to an important Socratic idea about ethics: That in being kalon a virtue is beneficial. ❋ Woodruff, Paul (2005)

I remember a student in the temple, who, after a long and learned investigation of the to kalon, or beautiful, had resolution enough to let his beard grow, and wore it in all public places, until his heir at law applied for a commission of lunacy against him; then he submitted to the razor, rather than run any risque of being found non compos. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Çizme, lëkurë, zinxhirët, kalon hekurt në torsos shkëlqen, svastikat, së bashku me mish grepa dhe motoēikletat të rënda, janë bërë të fshehtë dhe më fitimprurës vegla të erotizëm. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We are willing to have our passing whims exalted into passions, for this gratifies our vanity; but few of us understand or sympathize with the endeavour to ally the love of abstract beauty, and adoration of abstract good, the to agathon kai to kalon of the Socratic philosophers, with our sympathies with our kind. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I opened my eyes to a heat-reeking plain, and a sky of that eternal metallic blue so lovely to painter and poet, so blank and deathlike to us, whose [Greek kalon] was tempest, rain-storm, and the huge purple nimbus. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Is not mind that which called (kalesan) things by their names, and is not mind the beautiful (kalon)? ❋ Plato (1975)

Very likely you are right; but suppose that we leave these words and endeavour to see the rationale of kalon and aischron. ❋ Plato (1975)

There are the words which are connected with agathon and kalon, such as sumpheron and lusiteloun, ophelimon, kerdaleon, and their opposites. ❋ Plato (1975)

"For some [reason], he doesn't seem to [notice] how beautiful she is. He likes her for her." "He's found a [kalon]." ❋ Heliophilia (2013)

Kalon ❋ Batman K. (2009)

[girl]: "Man, you see [that guy over there]? he [must be] a Kalon" ❋ Cherry123568 (2016)

This [sh*t] is kalonic, [dude]. ❋ Bionike (2017)

“You didn’t [know] you could [block] in [Kingdom Hearts]? Kalon moment.” ❋ Kridian719 (2020)

[Maria] got cheated on by that [dirty Kalon] at the [Macklemore] concert. ❋ Lateyoungyveltal (2020)