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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 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.
plato men errors
Marcus Tullius Cicero 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.
death-penalty sentences death-sentence
Nelson Mandela The death sentence is a barbaric act.
death-penalty sometimes herds
Dennis Miller Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.
philosopher chemicals experiments
Manly Hall Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
philosopher language habit
Nick Harkaway It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.