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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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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
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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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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
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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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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 finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
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The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
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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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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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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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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
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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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Though April showers may come your way, They bring the flowers that bloom in May.
April Showers (1921) -
Today in bloom, tomorrow as afallen petals, like a delicate flower, life is.
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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