Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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Is virtue something that can be taught?