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So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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