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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 philosophy mind
Werner Heisenberg My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
plato men average
Walter Kaufmann There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.
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 philosophy love-is
Milan Kundera He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
plato reason wells
Joseph Addison It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!
plato fall men
Joseph Addison It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
writing satanic television
Anton LaVey Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.
writing hopefully knows
Robert Creeley Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
writing play important
Robert Creeley Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.
writing intelligent thinking
Robert Cormier I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
writing space people
Rob Thurman I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.
writing scripts mainstream
Rob Zombie [Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
writing imagination active
Richard Paul Evans I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
writing people trying
Richard Paul Evans Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
writing choices important
Richard Paul Evans The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.
development world internet
William J. Clinton That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.
development levels characteristics
Robert Trout The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
development trends domination
Vladimir Lenin The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
development sin accepting
Vladimir Lenin To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
development systematic events
Willard Van Orman Quine If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.
development definitions language
William Stafford I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
development dynasty politics
Narendra Modi Development is the solution to all problems. All other types of caste, communal and dynasty politics will not do good.
development way doe
Narendra Modi Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.
development useless matter
Jacques Ellul According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them.