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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 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 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.
plato real errors
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell. Paul Vixie
plato republic doe
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." Pete Seeger
political scientific
Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data. Robert Sullivan
political revolution consciousness
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot. Russell Brand
political synthesis moral
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane. Rose Macaulay
political trying various
Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies Samuel P. Huntington
political communism
What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism. William F. Buckley, Jr.
political hell chad
Where the hell is Chad? Richard M. Nixon
political resigning
I have impeached myself by resigning.
political politician criteria
Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion. Robert Caro
political journalism foolish
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.
enemy focus leadership people pitch solid terrific trying worst
He's always a person that people are trying to pitch around. He's his own worst enemy at times. When he can focus on doing the little things in the game, he's a terrific player. He's been very solid for us and his leadership has been tremendous.
enemy armor addresses
The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it. William Shenstone
enemy annoying stills
No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect. William Saroyan
enemy melancholy industry
Industry is the enemy of melancholy
enemy relief affection
The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection. Samuel Johnson
enemy quality meals
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. Samuel Richardson
enemy mountain kindred
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. William Cowper
enemy
Now is not the time for making new enemies. Voltaire
enemy
This is no time to be making new enemies.