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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
philosophical essence genius
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. William James
philosophical quality ethics
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. William James
philosophical eye lovers
Who can blind lover's eyes? Virgil
philosophical
We can't all do everything. Virgil
philosophical enemy strategy
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? Virgil
philosophical time-passes
Time passes irrevocably. Virgil
philosophical helping unfortunate
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. Virgil
philosophical reality mind
The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. Vladimir Lenin
philosophical autumn wind
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual. Wallace Stevens
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. Pig Miller
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. Chris Higginbottom
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? James Dempsey
mean people sinister
What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself. Jason Statham
means point search
We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect. Matthew Glotzbach
mean mind subject
To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so. William Cowper