Plato Says A Multitude Can Never Philosophize

Reason Cannot Establish Values, And Its Belief That It Can Is The Stupidest And Most Pernicious Illusion.

Education Is The Movement From Darkness To Light.

Children Tend To Be Rather Better Observers Of Adults' Characters Than Adults Are Of Children's, Because Children Are So Dependent On Adults That It Is Very Much In Their Interest To Discover The Weaknesses Of Their Elders.

The Distinction Between Private And Public Undermines The Unity Of Spiritual Strength, Draining The Public Of The Transcendent Energies While Trivializing Them Because The Merely Private Life Provides No Proper Stage For Their Action.

Socrates' Way Of Life Is The Consequence Of His Recognition That We Can Know What It Is That We Do Not Know About The Most Important Things And That We Are By Nature Obliged To Seek That Knowledge.