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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

I don't want anything I don't deserve, if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.