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Yet while many secondary sources mention that was a teacher, or acknowledge the importance of the teacher in what he writes, very few pay further attention to the point.2 It is the intention of this book to remedy the deficit.
“Even the name is not his real one. His given name was Aristocles. Plato, from the Greek for “wide” or “broad,” was probably a family nickname.”
― The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
― The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
“Most people don’t feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.”
― Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
― Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
“Not yet born, already John prophesies,” wrote Maximus of Turin, “and while still in the enclosure of his mother’s womb, confesses the coming of Christ with movements of joy.”
― The Incarnation in the Gospels
― The Incarnation in the Gospels
“The Biblical expression ‘In the beginning was the Word’ would not be an accurate description of creation according to Sanskrit-based philosophies. What is more accurate is: In the beginning was the primordial sound that differentiates into multiple root sounds, which manifest further before compounding sound sequences are made possible as words.”
― Sanskrit Non-Translatables : The Importance of Sanskritizing English
― Sanskrit Non-Translatables : The Importance of Sanskritizing English
“In book 8 of Plato’s Republic, Socrates argues that people are not naturally led to self-governance but rather seek a strong leader to follow. Democracy, by permitting freedom of speech, opens the door for a demagogue to exploit the people’s need for a strongman; the strongman will use this freedom to prey on the people’s resentments and fears. Once the strongman seizes power, he will end democracy, replacing it with tyranny.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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