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The comprehensive mind is always the dialectical one, the questioning spirit who asks what is fair and honorable, People are driven into believing that nothing is honorable any more than dishonorable, or just and good any more than the reverse, and so of all the ideas which are most valued ceases to...

Socrates composed for future leaders another and a better life than that of leaders today, believed then we may have a well-ordered society, the State which offers this will have leaders who are truly rich in virtue and wisdom, which are the true blessings of life. Whereas leaders went to public off...

In society, which is ordered with a view to the good of the whole, should be most likely to find Justice. In the ill-ordered society injustice: and, having found both which of the two is the happier not piecemeal happy a sort of happiness which will make citizens anything but guardians; for too anyo...

The fault of being false makes it impossible knowing and not knowing the face of a friend or the face of an enemy. For they cannot judge what is figurative and what is fact and anything received in mind is to likely become indelible and unalterable, thus here should be where there is most important ...

Knowledge just as art takes a considerable amount of time and discipline As Socrates tells of the charioteer who drives a pair of winged horses into the sky; one of them is reason and the other not. The driving of them both gives a great deal of trouble to the charioteer and will fall down if fed up...

Goethe believed, Nature If you wanted to describe it and grasp its spirit or gather meaning, stand back leave it alone, adjust to it scientifically.Science is blinded by profit making finds endless varieties of ways of using Nature, wearing it down and in short annihilates it; Today science acts on ...

Colors, on one hand, hovers outside shapes and forms, shadowy beings is the mere relation between light and darkness, in short, a spectrum. Colors conjured up by the eye, an action produced by brightness and darkness and the difference of their relationship. The first relation of light is transparen...

Another kind of visual coloring is with a cube or square plate of glass, color is seen in a glass that has been rapidly cooled after rapid burning, if we place a glass cube on a black base and it faces the brighter quarter of the sky, we see the image of the glass a reflection of it. This is an addi...

Colors in their totality is not merely determinateness but is actual difference. Color has immediate difference as affirmed and determined by the idea. Now the primary colors are, yellow, blue and red, they have an immediate obscuration, we also must include green as itself the color obtained by mix...

If curiousness makes a philosopher, you will find many will have the name but they only have a sense of philosophy not absolute philosophy and if when they are led to the true knowledge of philosophy, they will not pursue it. Why, because they would rather put the imitation in the place of the real....

Resilience is bound up with willpower. Willpower is not flexible, nor compressible, nor adaptable, resilience retreats into oneself because each body has its own particular place where it preserves self when you receive pressure from outside, that pressure causes an inner reaction, and feelings retr...

The art of rhetoric is the art of speech. Socrates believed the art of rhetoric there seem to be a great many holes ophocles or Euripides knew how to make a very long speech about a small matter, and a short speech about a great matter, and also a sorrowful speech, or a terrible, or threatening spee...

All images that dwell in mind are imprinted by feelings. Every animal has a center within feeling is a way of offering resistance to other. Thus feeling has consciousness, as self-consciousness free and impartial. Feeling directly shuts out other is in a state of tension with world over against it i...

Knowledge of what is one what is many we must have and what is equal Socrates believed we derive d knowledge from the senses perhaps maybe acquired before born, or at the instant of birth not only things or the greater or the lesser, but not just not knowledge of numbers but of beauty, goodness, jus...

Knowledge which took place centuries ago. A revival as such is recommended. One question was whether space is a mere property of time and when empty remains like a box, but space is free, not merely an arrangement of time and when time passes space remains..Space is freely spreading offers no resist...