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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 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
scary jason might
Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle. Rick Riordan
scary following
Make sure that nobody is following you. Mohamed Atta
scary helping loving-others
Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma Natsuki Takaya
scary
It is much safer to obey than to rule. Thomas a Kempis
scary comedy horror
Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?" Leigh Whannell
scary band thrill
In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new! Rachel Stevens
scary six-months want
I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers. Leo Kottke
scary risk the-end-of-the-day
It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried. Julianna Margulies
scary incredibles felt
I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary. Emma Stone
use moral debate
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. Richard Holloway
use-it-or-lose-it perspective use
Perspective: use it or lose it. Richard Bach
use results endeavor
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny. Truman Capote
use needs architecture
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. Toyo Ito
useless
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. Raymond Chandler
used
I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great. William Saroyan
use
Use your power gently. William Nicholson
use streets
The street has its own use for things. William Gibson
use policy materials
There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on. Richard Rogers