The history of Western philosophy is, after all, no more than a series of footnotes to Plato's philosophy.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious.
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Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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