#ki

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ↗

— Plato

#awake #dream #how #moment #our

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. ↗

— Plato

#conceive #i #mankind #many #needs

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

#being #content #most #seeking #themselves

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. ↗

— Plato

#mind #talking #thinking

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ↗

— Plato

#disturbed #important #institutions #introduction #kind

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#away #carried #get #left #suddenly

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#forget #here #kids #lenin #mothers

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#country #future #home #linked #proletariat

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head. ↗