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plato common-sense may
Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily. Bertrand Russell
plato emotional ideas
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
plato arguing argument
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.
plato long greek
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
plato should-have people
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
plato purpose world
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
plato two preparation
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two.
plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
reason respect respectful roles
I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice. Esther Rolle
reasoning judged
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all. C. S. Lewis
reason
That was, in my mind, the reason we won. Dustan Mohr
reason wake
That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.
reason
We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why. Paul DePodesta
reason work
I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.
reason instinct seats
You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct. Becca Fitzpatrick
reason
We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be. Jon Jovi
reason stay
The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.
wells
Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well. William Shakespeare
wells mining
Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch. David Talbot
wells queensland happenings
Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else. Campbell Newman
wells alas
Alas! never had I loved him so well! Charlotte Bronte
wells prodigals
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better. Charles Spurgeon
wells ifs
I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed. Chi Chi Rodriguez
wells divorced
When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.' Louis C. K.
wells
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food. Calvin Trillin
wells barack
I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans. Bill Ayers