“ The real community of man, in the midst of all the selfcontradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers...of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good...They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found...This is the meaning of the riddle of the improbable philosopherkings. They have a true community that is exemplary for all other communities. ”
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“ Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. ”
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“ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”
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“ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”
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“ Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. ”
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“ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”
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“ The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. ”
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“ As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ”
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“ As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ”
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“ Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ”
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“ As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ”
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“ The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers. ”
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“ Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ”
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“ Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. ”
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“ Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? ”
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“ The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. ”
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“ Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ”
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“ Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. ”
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“ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is. ”
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“ Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ”
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“ As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ”
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“ Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. ”
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“ There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. ”
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