If we do not invent and proliferate our own concepts, then our thinking and actions will be governed by someone else’s concepts, complete with their own political agenda, such as Plato’s concepts of the Form, copy, and simulacrum. We will
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“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much”
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
“That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
― The Holy Bible: King James Version

“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
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“I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.”
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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
― Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
― Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
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