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plato common-sense may
Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily. Bertrand Russell
plato emotional ideas
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
plato arguing argument
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.
plato long greek
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
plato should-have people
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
plato purpose world
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
plato two preparation
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two.
plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
common-sense important logic
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.
common-sense common englishmen
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
common-sense brain important
Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear. Diane von Furstenberg
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
common-sense people cynical
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
common-sense able bats
Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself. Charlie Munger
maybe people
When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.' Zoe Sugg
maybe threw
I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad. Whitey Ford
maybe perform record
I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. Van Morrison
maybe
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. Yayoi Kusama
maybe
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
maybe music record track
I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that. David Foster
may satisfied ifs
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. C. S. Lewis
may our-society way
On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways. Carl Sagan
may want way
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way? Bill Bryson