Socrates says: “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
Socrates says: “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
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Socrates says: “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
Socrates says: “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
Socrates says: “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”
Socrates says: “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”
Socrates says: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates says: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates says: “It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong”
Socrates says: “It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong”
Socrates says: “It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury”
Socrates says: “It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”
Socrates says: “And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death”
Socrates says: “And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows”
Sigmund Freud says: “Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern”
Sigmund Freud says: “Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
Sigmund Freud says: “As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought”
Sigmund Freud says: “As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.”
Sigmund Freud says: “I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros”,
Sigmund Freud says: “I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity…