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Art is justice"—this proposition reflects the Socratic assertion that virtue is knowledge.

M]inisterial poetry presents the nonphilosophic life as ministerial to the philosophic life and therefore, above all, it presents the philosophic life itself. The greatest example of ministerial poetry is the Platonic dialogue.

lumbar traction (stretching) is eased by inhalation and retarded by exhalation.

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

Shoshanna, the first kibbutz in Palestine, seemed to be the long-awaited answer for Zionism.

France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification.

Their pledge, in fact, came close to later communal farming ideas. The communal farm was not born of social or political idealism. It was based on the necessities of survival; there was no other way.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth.

I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club.

Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors.

Newton was "not finally reducible to the criteria by which we comprehend our fellow human beings.

In 1932, after nineteen years of research, Bartlett published his results.

Thus three elements unite to define the Objectivist concept of reason: perception,† conception, and logic.

Kant is the first and greatest nihilist in the history of thought. A nihilist is one who works to destroy man's mind and values as an end in itself, for the sake of the destruction.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

What remains is the impression of a clear rhythm, a logical & absolutely sure articulation of the picture plane.

which gave Cleveland the second-largest theater complex in the country, right behind Lincoln Center in New York.

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.

My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.