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  1. Plato _ The Republic

    That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
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  2. Plato _ The Republic and Other Works

    The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.
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  3. Plato _ The Symposium

    what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be a life to disregard?
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  4. Plato _ Republic: The Theatre of the

    In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...{philosophy} to complete uselessness as members of society.
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  5. Plato _ The Symposium

    He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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  6. Plato _ Plato's Republic

    The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
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  7. Plato _ The Allegory of the Cave

    How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
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  8. Plato _ The Republic

    Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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  9. Plato _ The Symposium

    Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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  10. Plato _ Apology

    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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  11. Plato _ The Symposium

    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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  12. Plato _ The Republic

    Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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