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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 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
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.
war men ideas
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians. Richard Perle
war character winter
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere. Richard Paul Evans
war generations vietnam
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. Richard Holbrooke
war japan suffering
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former. Townsend Harris
war thinking president
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
war habit increase
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
war wow good-old-days
Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. Rick Riordan
war mean bff
When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?
war block mean
I never thought I'd get to see Rome," Hazel said. "When I was alive, I mean for the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFF's with Hitler?" Hazel stared at him like he was an alien. "BFF's?" "Never mind." "I'd love to see the Trevi Fountain," she said. "There's a fountain on every block," Leo grumbled. "Or the Spanish Steps," Hazel said. "Why would you come to Italy to see Spanosh steps?" Leo asked. "That's like going to China for Mexican food, isn't it?" "You're hopeless," Hazel complained. "So I've been told.
mean snap step
Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.
meant tried
I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.' Sophie Winkleman
means school since six state tournament year
Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.
meant suited took
Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick! Elizabeth McGovern
meant money pay
It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them. Bill Walton
mean wrong
What do you mean you are intercepting the wrong subject? How often does it occur? How long does it go on for?
mean people sinister
What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself. Jason Statham
mean mind subject
To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so. William Cowper
meant outside painting
I think we were meant to be painting outside originally, Lorraine Kelly