As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists or haters of ideas. –

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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists or haters of ideas. –

-- Plato

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He was a wise man who invented beer.

-- Plato

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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

-- Plato

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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The opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

-- Plato

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