Gluttony is not a secret vice

To have a blank page in-front of you, not influenced by the ideas of others.  To write a single unique thought, that should be the ultimate aim of one self.

"The highest goal in all of education is knowledge of the Good; that is, not merely an awareness of particular benefits and pleasures, but acquaintance with the Form itself. Just as the sun provides illumination by means of which we are able to perceive everything in the visual world, he argued, so the Form of the Good provides the ultimate standard by means of which we can apprehend the reality of everything that has value. "

"Men are moved to action not by things as they are, but by their own opinions and convictions. "

"Reason is not a tool for attaining goals independently thought worthwhile: possessions, honour, personal and political success; rather, rationality itself, expressed in the giving of reasons and the avoidance of contradictions, confers value to goals and opinions. The ultimate educational objective, then, is to bring about a revolution in the educand's perception of the role of reason, namely the recognition of its normative, and not merely theoretical or instrumental, nature."

"Everyone desires his own happiness-and-success. But, since the real object of our desire is practically always given to us only confusedly, we may be mistaken as to the nature of such success, and thus even as to the real significance of our own desires. It is not our own evaluation of ourselves as happy or miserable that determines our happiness or misery. "

"Success is measured not by his personal fate but by whether he lived a reasoned life, free of contradictions."

In so many words. 

Now I´m off to study,  not to study so to get a job, a title, a raise or a perceived statue in life. No.  Now I want to know the past, phrases and wisdom of others so I can roast someone in a more intellectual way.  

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."