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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
purpose purpose-of-life
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history. Richard Dawkins
purpose danger
The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control. William S. Burroughs
purpose horror imagine
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand. Richard Flanagan
purpose warrants
So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants. Robert Mueller
purpose universe
Everything in the universe has a purpose Wayne Dyer
purpose-driven-life driven activity
Never confuse activity with productivity. Rick Warren
purpose purpose-driven-life our-lives
We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.
purpose significant periods
The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days...
purpose purpose-driven-life born
You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
world missions composer
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those. Richard D. James
world superstar ridiculous
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world. Rob Sheffield
world objective-truth materials
Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.
world sake environment
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning. Richard Wright
world this-world dimitri
I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri Richelle Mead
world dresses kind
This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.
world revolution consciousness
The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun. Russell Brand
world purpose found
It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it. Ronda Rousey
world being-the-best worst
I train to be the best in the world on my worst day