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“Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous informationnever flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of goodhe arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.”
—W. Winwood Reade (18381875)
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