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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.
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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?
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Joseph Joubert Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
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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."
philosophy science engineering
Richard P. Feynman Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
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Roger Martin When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
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Umberto Eco Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
philosophy believe opportunity
Reid Hoffman We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
philosophy discovery political
William Kristol Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
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William James The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
philosophy mind quiet
William James To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
philosophy mind states
William James Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
philosophy thinking stubborn
William James Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
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Curt Schilling He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Jim Haslam I don't give so I can have influence over there,
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Tish Olszewski I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.
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Charles Dean I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.
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Liv Warfield Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.
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Leigh Hunt Patience and gentleness is power.
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Oprah Winfrey You are the single biggest influence in your life.
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Quentin Tarantino Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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Leonard Peltier The FBI with their heavy influence on the judiciary system has successfully blocked me on every turn.