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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
intellectual tragedy values
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him... Richard Hofstadter
intellectual filters would-be
If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor. Umberto Eco
intellectual way intellect
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! William Wordsworth
intellectual film kung-fu
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. Werner Herzog
intellectual atheism matter
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages. Wendy Kaminer
intellectual disease
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease. Robert M. Pirsig
intellectual socialism communism
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
intellectual important information
The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money. Walter Wriston
intellectual investing climate
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism. Joseph A. Schumpeter
sausage meat doe
I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat! Jonathan Safran Foer
sausage
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage
sausage bologna pope
Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage. Lord Byron
sausage meat conservative
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative. Boris Johnson
sausage silent repose
Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon. Tom Robbins
sausage enough starvation
The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage. Ernst Toller