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Posts Tagged ‘Aristotle’

Eulogising Past Glories

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Nov 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Socrates thought they were the voice of conscience. Iroquois Indians saw them as commands to be followed. Voltaire said they resulted from overeating. Freud defined them as repressed thoughts. Author Robert G. Allen wrote: “The future you see is the future you get”, whereas James Allen said “Dreamers are saviours of the world”. This is [...]



Intellectual Lunacy

By Mahtab Bashir • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

People call me insane. They may be right because a person who tries to cling to the virtues of good and detests evil is not welcome in any society especially in ours. People call me moron may be because I cannot speak anything but the truth. I don’t feel twinge. I don’t feel isolated as [...]