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plato years brooklyn
Robert Nozick 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.
plato eye vision
Virginia Woolf 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…
plato philosophy mind
Werner Heisenberg My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
plato men average
Walter Kaufmann 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.
plato inspiration thinking
Rebecca Solnit 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?
plato swans style
Joseph Joubert Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
plato circles bottles
Koren Zailckas 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.
plato men evil
Marcus Tullius Cicero Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
philosophy science engineering
Richard P. Feynman Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
philosophy
Richelle Mead You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.
philosophy design innovation
Roger Martin When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
philosophy ideas should
Umberto Eco Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
philosophy matter remember
Travis Tritt Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.
philosophy believe opportunity
Reid Hoffman We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
philosophy discovery political
William Kristol Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
philosophy law medicine
William James The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
philosophy mind quiet
William James To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
psychology desire belief
Richard Dawkins Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.
psychology firsts physiological
Wilhelm Wundt Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.
psychology mind consciousness
Wilhelm Wundt The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
psychology doe substance
Wilhelm Wundt We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
psychology failing psychological
Wilhelm Wundt There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
psychology arms facts
Ludwig Wittgenstein What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
psychology understanding different
Karl A. Menninger Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.
psychology pseudo periods
James Mark Baldwin Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
psychology shooting firsts
Jodie Foster By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.