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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 philosophy mind
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Werner Heisenberg
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
arguing argument fire knocks misses pistol
There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. Robert Frost
arguing
It's better not to argue with women, Vladimir Putin
arguing billion brief conduct department future indeed prevent program tobacco
In fact, on May 12, 2005, the department had filed a brief arguing that the $130 billion smoking-cessation program was indeed forward-looking and would prevent and restrain future wrongful conduct by the tobacco industry, Michael Fiore
arguing both data literally month people prices seen shown sides stop victory
It's more of a victory lap. Literally a month ago people were arguing that prices would not stop going up. Now, data we would have killed for two years ago is seen as the end of the world. But alarmists on both sides of this thing have been shown to be wrong.
arguing havens
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't. Laurence J. Peter
arguing surprise claire
I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense. Rachel Caine
arguing eternity legend men
The legend is there are two men up there arguing for all eternity.
arguing black boss came forth guy knife left male outside pulled shirt walked
They started arguing back and forth started spitting back and forth, so they left the store. My boss and another guy walked outside and they started fist-fighting. One guy's shirt came off. Then the other black male pulled out a knife and stabbed two of them.
arguing huge people workers
There's a huge redistribution away from workers to people who use immigrants. ... That's what people are arguing about.
argument books carefully great instead ipad offers people places pleasures process publishers readers reading value writers
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. John Green
argument beat voting
His whole argument is 'Vote for me, and this is how I'm going to do it. I'm going to beat Bush, and here's how.' That's his whole campaign. Bill Schneider
argument force gives
There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law. William Hazlitt
argument lie name reply
I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. William Shakespeare
argument doubt
There is an argument that it would be appropriate now. But I doubt that will happen.
argument decision honest informed land lay makers
Our argument is all about getting an honest lay of the land so the decision makers can make the most informed decision.
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Clearly you can speculate that 4.75 percent is not the end of Federal Reserve tightening and there is a good argument now that they go to five percent. People don't want to be dollar short at the moment.
argument barry people
If people want to say Barry is No. 1, they won't get an argument from me. As long as I get to be No. 2. Willie Mays
argument husband music people point sad share
I just had an argument with my husband and I was so disappointed with his point of view, ... And the sad part is that a lot of people share his view, which is that music isn't about music any more. It's about image.