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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 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 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.
plato real errors
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. Paul Vixie
plato republic doe
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." Pete Seeger
emotional few hit hits knowing last locker missing room senior shots swagger
Knowing it was Senior Day, Nicolle was emotional in the locker room before the game, but after she hit some shots and got her rhythm, she got that swagger that had been missing for the last few games. When she hits shots from the perimeter like she did today, it makes us a better team. Ed Swanson
emotional gave huge lift people team whenever
He could take over a game. Not many people could do the things he does. It's a huge loss, but he gave the team an emotional lift whenever he was up.
emotional ideas use
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust. Rian Johnson
emotional musical enemy
I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him. Trevor Rabin
emotional
As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe. Valerie Bertinelli
emotional gliding comedy
My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding. Robin Williams
emotional stuff howlin-wolf
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff. Robert Quine
emotional weight roller-coaster
My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it. Sara Rue
emotional guy fleas
That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea. Sara Shepard
ideas influence outcome time wants
He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.
ideas ton
There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.
ideas whatever
We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.
ideas words
ideas and words that do not make any sense. Isadora Duncan
ideas mind riches
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. Robert Collier
ideas rocks perspective
Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea. Rob Reiner
ideas walks
The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.
ideas musical ratios
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. Rob Sheffield
ideas president novelists
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen. Richard Paul Evans