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4daaa0d
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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knowing
nothing
paradox
plato
republic
socrates
socratic
wisdome
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Plato |
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6822fce
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The so-called is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in . Less well known is the : . -- In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. .
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criminal
force
intolerance
philosophy
plato
reason
science
tolerance
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Karl Raimund Popper |
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62b806e
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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plato
republic
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Plato |
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225b307
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Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
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life
meaning-of-life
plato
socrates
unexamined-life
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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671f660
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Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called , or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament--the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana--is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.
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ancient-greeks
atheism
boredom
brotherhood
cana
christianity
entheos
food
hellenism
inspiration
iran
judaea
marriage-at-cana
miracles
mullahs
new-testament
omar-khayyam
oxford
passover
passover-seder
plato
reading
religion
symposia
wine
writing
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Christopher Hitchens |
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0221406
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I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
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knowledge
plato
socrates
wisdom
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Plato |
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950f81e
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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plato
symposium
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Plato |
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5adabc7
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I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.
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plato
platonic
russell-brand
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Russell Brand |
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ba66127
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." -Plato"
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love
philosiphy
plato
song
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Jessica Clare |
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ea0aa46
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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 wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.
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plato
symposium
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Plato |
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86dc7d9
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For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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fear-of-death
plato
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Plato |
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5434846
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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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plato
symposium
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Plato |
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f2cf317
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Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato? Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a sculptor. Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they have no need to be reminded. Plato: That is correct. Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
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catholic-author
christian
citizens
civil-liberty
free-country
freedom
freedom-of-thought
gadfly
liberty
philosophers
philosophical
philosophy
plato
socrates
thought-provoking
wisdom
words-of-wisdom
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E.A. Bucchianeri |
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e99bc07
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And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.
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plato
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Daniel Keyes |
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de1ba6d
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Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99
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bureaucrats
conservative
corruption
government
plato
policy
politics
politics-of-the-united-states
process
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Philip K. Howard |
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316e90c
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[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy
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plato
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Frederick Charles Copleston |
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I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times' will take. Many Years, and perhaps Centuries must pass, before the current will acquire a Settled direction... yet , , Hindoo, and cabalistic Christianity, . Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires. { }
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death-blow
future
hindu
hinduism
jefferson
monster
mortal-wound
plato
platonic
pythagoras
pythagoric
thomas-jefferson
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John Adams |
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fbf8f64
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Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.
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civilization
crudeness
education
knowledge
like-mindedness
materialism
philosophy
plato
power
understanding
vulgarity
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Iain Pears |
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fa1fd71
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's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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plato
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Benjamin Jowett |
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Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled--the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed. How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato's honey head, and sweetly perished there?
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ohio
plato
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Herman Melville |
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daff311
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"In the "Republic," Plato vigorously attacked the oral, poetized form as a vehicle for communicating knowledge. He pleaded for a more precise method of communication and classification ("The Ideas"), one which would favor the investigation of facts, principles of reality, human nature, and conduct. What the Greeks meant by "poetry" was radically different from what we mean by poetry. Their "poetic" expression was a product of a collective psyche and mind. The mimetic form, a technique that exploited rhythm, meter and music, achieved the desired psychological response in the listener. Listeners could memorize with greater ease what was sung than what was said. Plato attacked this method because it discouraged disputation and argument. It was in his opinion the chief obstacle to abstract, speculative reasoning - he called it "a poison, and an enemy of the people."
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media
media-criticism
plato
poetry
the-republic
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Marshall McLuhan |
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974cb1f
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"I remember his words," recalled Amnon. "He said, 'There is nothing we can do in philosophy. Plato solved too many of the problems. We can't have any impact in this area. There are too many smart guys and too few problems left, and the problems have no solutions.'" The mind-body problem was a good example. How are our various mental events--what you believe, what you think--related to our physical states? What is the relationship between our bodies and our minds? The question was at least as old as Descartes, but there was still no answer in sight--at least not in philosophy. The trouble with philosophy, Amos thought, was that it didn't play by the rules of science."
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plato
science
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Michael Lewis |
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88b192a
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In Darwins post-platonische werelds is de variatie de fundamentele werkelijkheid en veranderen berekende gemiddelden in abstracties. We blijven echter de voorkeur geven aan het oudere en tegengestelde standpunt: we zien variatie nog steeds als een massa onlogische toevalligheden, die hoofdzakelijk van waarde is omdat zo'n spreiding te gebruiken is voor de berekening van een gemiddelde, hetgeen we dan beschouwen als iets wat een essentie nog het best benadert.
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evolutie
plato
variatie
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Stephen Jay Gould |