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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he w

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom

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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers… of all men to the extent that they know. – Allan Bloom

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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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