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Moses Finley quotes: Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Moses Finley quotes: Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

Moses Finley quotes: It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Moses Finley quotes: If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

Moses Finley quotes: A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

Moses Finley quotes: Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

Moses Finley quotes: In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.