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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 writing media
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation. Marshall McLuhan
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 freedom mean
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. Pablo Picasso
father fathers feeling game good teach
Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us. Bruce Larner
father figure
He was a father figure to all of us.
fathers founding frankly hope ruling states step supreme united
He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended. John Cornyn
father football generation great next player tough
He comes from lineage of tough people. His grandfather was a great football player at Idaho. His father was a great player at Boise State. He comes by this naturally. He's the next generation of tough guys.
fathers hundred
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. Galeazzo Ciano
father mess
Her father managed the officers' mess and Gloria was the cashier. Steve Wallace
father itself noble regards religion
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble
father life situation tragic
His whole life was his family. It's a tragic situation for everyone involved. These two young children, they have no mother, no father and no grandma. Michael Brown
fathers foundation giving good habits mothers parents people setting students sure wake
The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.
thinking
His thinking was a little off and too complicated.
thinking
I thought about him, but I was thinking more about the 2-for-1. Luke Ridnour
thinking media government
A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care. Alex Jones
thinking unhappy unhealthy
After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things. Sharon Stone
thinking
I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.
thinking guarded
I think you have to be guarded but not closed off. AJ Michalka
thinking entertainment escapists
I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad. Rob Zombie
thinking people trying
Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial." Rob Brown
thinking people hard
It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.