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plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato years brooklyn
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. Robert Nozick
plato eye vision
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… Virginia Woolf
plato men average
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. Walter Kaufmann
plato inspiration thinking
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? Rebecca Solnit
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Joseph Joubert
plato circles bottles
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished. Koren Zailckas
plato men evil
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Marcus Tullius Cicero
plato men errors
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.
moving timing
God's timing in moving me down here was perfect, Joseph Allen
moving reality checks
This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on. Alan Black
moving acting want
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it. Rob Reiner
moving tunes sometimes
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you. Rob Sheffield
moving bored looks
When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look. Rob Zombie
moving ideas development
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now. Richard John Neuhaus
moving mean surveillance-cameras
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though. Richard Dawkins
moving eye men
Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind. Richard Whately
moving needs waste
You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.” He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste. Richelle Mead
eyes stars twilight
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . . William Wordsworth
eyes opened period pitches short throw
He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time. Joe Girardi
eyes forget pupils
His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.
eyes leave looking pass teammates watching worked
I was just watching their eyes, and they were looking at who they were about to pass to. So I said, 'I've got to get this. I've got to leave it all on the floor.' My teammates had my back, so I went for it, and it worked out.
eye immediacy magnification
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. William Wilberforce
eye steel moments
But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet. Carl Jung
eye light darkness
He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.
eye good heads hide hold meet plus speak taught trying whether
We may have been poor, but my sister, Bobbie, and I were taught to hold our heads up high. Whether you're young or old, when you meet someone, you look 'em in the eye and speak up so you can be heard. When you look a person in the eye, you're not trying to hide who you are, plus you get a pretty good idea of who they are. Willie Nelson
eyes kept looked lousy royals sick thrown
He was sick with some kind of virus, he was coughing, he had thrown up, his eyes looked terrible, he had lousy stuff, and yet he kept the Royals from scoring, Jason Varitek