Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
