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The Idealist Knows
Socho ke jheelon ka shehar hoLehron pe apna ek ghar ho Hum jo dekhein sapne pyareSach hon saare bas aur kya Farsh ho pyaar ka, khushbuon ki deewareinHum jahan baith ke prem se din guzaarein Palkein uthein, palkein jhukeinDekhe tujhe bas yeh nazar Barf hi barf ho sardiyon ka ho mausamAag ke saamne hath senkte hon humBaithi rahoon aagosh meinRakh ke tere kandhe pe sar – Sameer The liberty to think novel, think big, think idealist is given to poets freely. We the ones who cannot “poet” open our mouth and hell breaks loose. All day, all night, the modern man sings songs, but put it in prose and all…
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Enlightenment or Unenlightenment of our Nature – Plato
Following is taken from Plato’s Republic Book VII (translated by C. D. C. Reeve) SOCRATES: Next, then, compare the effect of education and that of the lack of it on our nature to an experience like this. Imagine human beings living in an underground, cavelike dwelling, with an entrance a long way up that is open to the light and as wide as the cave itself. They have been there since childhood, with their necks and legs fettered, so that they are fixed in the same place, able to see only in front of them because their fetter prevents them from turning their heads around. Light is provided by a…
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The Death of Socrates
Following is how Plato described the moments of Socrates’ death in what Will Durant calls “one of the greatest passages of the world’s literature”.
Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment