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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but…
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be…
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here…
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop…
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it…
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to…
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a…
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference…
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,…
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done…
— Florence Nightingale
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both…
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes…
— H. L. Mencken
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi…
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