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- Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
- Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in…
- To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
- Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and…
- No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
- Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
- Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their…
- ... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the…
- Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring…
- Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One…
- The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has…
- So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises…
- What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,…
- ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have…
- The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference…
- Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to tell…
- To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and…
- One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and…
- Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
- Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from…
- And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something…
- You cannot conceive the many without the one.
- The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle