> .. don’t we all know how relatively easy it has always been to lose at least the habit, if not the faculty, of thinking? Nothing more is needed than to live in constant distraction and never leave the company of others.. When Socrates goes home, he is not alone, he is by himself.. What #Socrates discovered was that we can have intercourse with ourselves, as well as with others
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