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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.
simple order wish
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible. Richard P. Feynman
simple difficult science-and-religion
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. Richard Dawkins
simple needs individual
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.
simple chinese handcuffs
Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. Rick Riordan
simple mind relax
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. William Shenstone
simple men simplicity
Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures. William Morris
simple compassion justice
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice. William J. Clinton
simple artist media
Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever. William F. Buckley, Jr.
simple needs loud
Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud. Rebecca Stead
simplicity aim complexity
The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity. William James
simplicity ransom stuff
You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff. Wayne Dyer
simplicity style orderliness
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity. William Strunk, Jr.
simplicity focus unhappy
If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become. Joseph B. Wirthlin
simplicity trying alternatives
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth. Nelson Goodman
simplicity answers needs
I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. Linda McCartney
simplicity genius
There is no genius where there is not simplicity. Leo Tolstoy
simplicity domain wells
Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena. Lee Smolin
simplicity too-much littles
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much. Joshua Reynolds