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plato years brooklyn
Robert Nozick When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.
plato eye vision
Virginia Woolf The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life…
plato inspiration thinking
Rebecca Solnit How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?
plato swans style
Joseph Joubert Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
plato men evil
Marcus Tullius Cicero Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
plato men errors
Marcus Tullius Cicero By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
plato real errors
Paul Vixie The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.
plato republic doe
Pete Seeger Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."
mean snap step
Pig Miller Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.
meant tried
Sophie Winkleman I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'
means school since six state tournament year
Chris Higginbottom Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.
meant suited took
Elizabeth McGovern Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!
meant money pay
Bill Walton It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.
mean people sinister
Jason Statham What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself.
mean mind subject
William Cowper To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so.
meant outside painting
Lorraine Kelly I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,
meant
Joe Wilcox It is meant to be an idea factory.
men giving perfect
Plato The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
men
Jane Fonda I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.
men money
Raquel Cassidy I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.
men heaven have-faith
William Wilberforce Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
men joy soul
William Wilberforce Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
men sides harvard
Abbott L. Lowell There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
men progress neighbor
Abbott L. Lowell All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
men lines straight-lines
Antoni Gaudi The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God
men temper ifs
Lord Shaftesbury Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.