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But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

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It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

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If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

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I would fain grow old learning many things.

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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

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... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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