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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 6 days ago
The content or time-clothing of any...

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 1 week ago
"...the church of England, when she...

"...the church of England, when she baptizes any one, makes him not a Christian [...] the church of England is mistaken, and makes none but socinians Christians"

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Proclus
Proclus
2 months 3 weeks ago
If two right lines cut one...

If two right lines cut one another, they will form the angles at the vertex equal. ...This... is what the present theorem evinces, that when two right lines mutually cut each other, the vertical angles are equal. And it was first invented according to Eudemus by Thales...

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Proposition XV. Thereom VIII.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 1 week ago
Christianity possesses the great advantage over...

Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

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Book IV, Part 1, Section 1, "The Christian religion as a learned religion"
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 6 days ago
Science fiction offers its writers chances...

Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
4 months 1 week ago
...and woe betide fateful curiosity should...
...and woe betide fateful curiosity should it ever succeed in peering through a crack in the chamber of consciousness, out and down into the depths, and thus gain an intimation of the fact that humanity, in the indifference of its ignorance, rests on the pitiless, the greedy, the insatiable, the murderous clinging in dreams, as it were, to the back of a tiger.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 2 weeks ago
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to...

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone".

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 6 days ago
An observer studying the Solar system...

An observer studying the Solar system dispassionately, and finding himself capable of bringing the four giant planets to his notice, could reasonably say that the Solar system consisted of one star, four planets, and some traces of debris.

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George Santayana
George Santayana
2 months ago
O World, Thou Choosest Not

O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.

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O World, Thou Choosest Not
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Charles Fourier
Charles Fourier
4 days ago
This miracle of social concord would...

This miracle of social concord would result not from direct conciliation, which would be impossible, but from the development of new interests, and especially from the amazement with which the minds of men would be filled on being convinced of the radical falseness of the civilized social order by comparison with the associative or combined, and of the errors in which the social world has been so long plunged - misled by speculative philosophy, which upholds and extols this order with all its defects to the entire neglect of the study of association.

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The Theory of Social Organization. Harmonian Man: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier, p. 5.
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer
1 month 4 weeks ago
The complexity of the connection between...

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

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p. 133.
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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 1 week ago
Preference of vice to virtue, a...

Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.

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Book II, Ch. 21, sec. 70
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
2 weeks 1 day ago
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 1 week ago
He wanted to assume his entire...

He wanted to assume his entire condition, to carry the world on his shoulders and to become, in defiance of all, what all have made of him.

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p. 384
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months ago
Notwithstanding I have a few things...

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

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Revelation
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Jesus
Jesus
2 months ago
Then he said to them, "Watch...

Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." And he told them this parable: "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' "Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry." ' "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' "This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God."

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12:15-21 (NIV)
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A. J. Ayer
A. J. Ayer
2 months 4 days ago
The criterion which we use to...

The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability. We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express - that is, if he knows what observations would lead him, under certain conditions, to accept the proposition as being true, or reject it as being false.

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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 1 week ago
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch,...

Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.

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Section 10 : Of Miracles Pt. 2
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 3 weeks ago
The deepest definition of youth is...

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

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p. 285.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 6 days ago
It is surely better to be...

It is surely better to be wronged than to do wrong.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
Fine manners need the support of...

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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Behavior
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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
1 month 1 day ago
For we are social beings, who...

For we are social beings, who can exist and behave as autonomous agents only because we are supported in our ventures by that feeling of primal safety that the bond of society brings. We can envisage no project and no satisfaction on which the eyes of others do not shine. We are joined to those others, and even when they are strangers to us, they are also part of us. It is the indispensable need for membership that brings the national idea to our minds; and there is no rational argument that will expel it, once it is there. Without it, we are homeless; and even if our attitude to home is one of sour disaffection, home is no less necessary to our sense of who we are.

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'The First Person Plural', in Ronald Beiner (ed.), Theorizing Nationalism (1999), p. 291
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
3 months 1 week ago
And O! how the mind is...

And O! how the mind is here washed clean of all its early ingrafted Jewish superstition ! It is the most profitable and elevating reading which is possible in the world. It has been the solace of my life, and will be the solace of my death.

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About the Upanishads. Arthur Schopenhauer, quoted in Europe Looks At India by Mukherhi, D.P.
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John Gray
John Gray
2 weeks 1 day ago
The evidence of science and history...

The evidence of science and history is that humans are only ever partly and intermittently rational, but for modern humanists the solution is simple: human beings must in future be more reasonable. These enthusiasts for reason have not noticed that the idea that humans may one day be more rational requires a greater leap of faith than anything in religion. Since it requires a miraculous breach in the order of things, the idea that Jesus returned from the dead is not as contrary to reason as the notion that human beings will in future be different from how they have always been.

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An Old Chaos: Humanism and Flying Saucers (p. 75)
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Aristotle
Aristotle
4 months 1 week ago
If, then, in the sphere of...

If, then, in the sphere of action there is some one end which we desire for its own sake, and for the sake of which we desire every thing else; and if we do not choose every thing for the sake of something else, for this would go on without limit, and our desire would be idle and futile, it is clear that this must be the supreme good, and the best thing of all.

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Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
2 months 3 days ago
Big industry has brought all the...

Big industry has brought all the people of the Earth into contact with each other, has merged all local markets into one world market, has spread civilization and progress everywhere and has thus ensured that whatever happens in civilized countries will have repercussions in all other countries. It follows that if the workers in England or France now liberate themselves, this must set off revolution in all other countries - revolutions which, sooner or later, must accomplish the liberation of their respective working class.

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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 month 1 week ago
The "hard law of value," the...

The "hard law of value," the "law set in stone"-when it abandons us, what sadness, what panic! This is why there are still good days left to fascist and authoritarian methods, because they revive something of the violence necessary to life-whether suffered or inflicted. The violence of ritual, the violence of work, the violence of knowledge, the violence of blood, the violence of power and of the political is good! It is clear, luminous, the relations of force, contradictions, exploitation, repression! This is lacking today, and the need for it makes itself felt.

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"Value's Last Tango," p. 156
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 1 week ago
If conquest constitutes a natural right...

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.

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The Abolition of Landed Property Letter to Robert Applegarth, 3 December 1869
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chanakya
chanakya
2 weeks 3 days ago
All urgent calls he shall hear...

All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.

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Book I : "Concerning Discipline" Chapter 19
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
When I come to my own...

When I come to my own beliefs, I find myself quite unable to discern any purpose in the universe, and still more unable to wish to discern one.

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"Is There a God?", 1952
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
1 month 4 days ago
Such delusions of grandeur to think...

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

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Richard Dawkins debates Rowan Williams
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 4 weeks ago
The only justifiable stopping place for...

The only justifiable stopping place for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected by our actions are included within the circle of altruism. This means that all beings with the capacity to feel pleasure or pain should be included; we can improve their welfare by increasing their pleasures and diminishing their pains.

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Chapter 4, Reason, p. 120
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 1 week ago
My desire and wish is that...

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
3 weeks 6 days ago
As free constitutions are the strongest...

As free constitutions are the strongest supports of governments, social order is the best safeguard of freedom. Liberty has no enemies so pernicious as those misguided friends whose ardour in her cause leads them to outrage the moral sense of mankind, and to arm against her the interests and feelings which are her natural allies. Even the prejudices of nations should be respected.

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'Essay on the Life and Character of King William III' (1822), written for the Greaves Historical Prize at Cambridge, quoted in The Times Literary Supplement (1 May 1969), p. 469
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 3 weeks ago
This mortal Don Quixote died and...

This mortal Don Quixote died and descended into hell, which he entered lance on rest, and freed all the condemned, as he freed the galley slaves, and he shut the gates of hell, and tore down the scroll that Dante saw there and replaced it by one on which was written "Long live hope!" and escorted by those whom he had freed, and they laughing at him, he went to heaven. And God laughed paternally at him, and this divine laughter filled his soul with eternal happiness.

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 3 weeks ago
There is a greatness in the...

There is a greatness in the lives of those who build up religious systems, a greatness in action, in idea and in self-subordination, embodied in instance after instance through centuries of growth. There is a greatness in the rebels who destroy such systems: they are the Titans who storm heaven, armed with passionate sincerity. It may be that the revolt is the mere assertion by youth of its right to its proper brilliance, to that final good of immediate joy. Philosophy may not neglect the multifariousness of the world - the fairies dance, and Christ is nailed to the cross.

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Pt. V, ch. 1, sec. 1.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 6 days ago
Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System...

Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.

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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 6 days ago
Victories over ingrained patterns of thought...

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
2 months ago
The concept of freedom, as the...

The concept of freedom, as the Philosophy of Right has shown, follows the pattern of free ownership. As a result, the history of the world that Hegel looks out upon exalts and enshrines the history of the middle-class, which based itself on this pattern. There is a stark truth in Hegel's strangely certain announcement that history has reached its end. But it announces the funeral of a class, not of history.

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P. 227
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
3 months 3 days ago
The truth can be spoken only...

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

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p. 41e
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 1 week ago
Solvency is maintained by means of...

Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3 months 1 week ago
The more one presupposes that his...

The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.

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Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 15
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William James
William James
3 months 1 week ago
There is but one unconditional commandment,...

There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see. Abstract rules indeed can help; but they help the less in proportion as our intuitions are more piercing, and our vocation is the stronger for the moral life. For every real dilemma is in literal strictness a unique situation; and the exact combination of ideals realized and ideals disappointed which each decision creates is always a universe without a precedent, and for which no adequate previous rule exists.

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"The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life", International Journal of Ethics, April 1891
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
1 month 3 weeks ago
The devil is an angel too....

The devil is an angel too.

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[Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue] (1920); Two Mothers
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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 1 week ago
I wanted for the moments in...

I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.

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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
2 months 1 week ago
To prove the Gospels by a...

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

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As quoted in The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations (1963) by Norbert Gutermam
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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 1 week ago
The Christian Religion not only was...

The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.

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Section 10 : Of Miracles Pt. 2
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
1 month 3 weeks ago
Any physical object which by its...

Any physical object which by its influence deteriorates its environment, commits suicide.

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Ch. 6: "The Nineteenth Century", p. 155
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
1 month 1 week ago
Dying is nothing. You have to...

Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.

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George Santayana
George Santayana
2 months ago
When Socrates and his two great...

When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind...They were merely writing an eloquent epitaph for their country.

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