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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 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.
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
circles incompetence
Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles. William Wallace
circles said empresses
The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles. Robert Jordan
circles way graduates
It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.' Neale Donald Walsch
circles religion enough
Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. Joseph Addison
circles world down-and
I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure. Jonathan Swift
circles government effort
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy. Friedrich August von Hayek
circles mind vision
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. Friedrich Schiller
circles double four
Take it double time. Four circles left, four circles right. Sara Jones
circles excited hysterical run
It's hysterical to watch, as long as you're out of range, ... When they get excited they run around in circles doing one handstand after another.
bottles came help medical moving water
I came up here to help out where I can. And not just medical stuff, but I've been moving bottles of water and everything else.
bottles sunscreen wear-sunscreen
I always carry Evian bottle and sunscreen. Sela Ward
bottles instinct entrepreneurial
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out. Alan Sugar
bottles shots brandy
A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you. Cary Grant
bottles should pints
Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
bottles should
A quart bottle should hold a quart.
bottles dining fridge job room small stored time
That small fridge in the dining room just isn't doing the job anymore. When there are bottles stored in every room in the house, it's time to think about a better option. Jay Rosen
bottles perfume release
Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped—what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again, Jane Hirshfield
bottles either emotional seen
Either he's not very emotional, or he bottles it. I have never seen him get emotional about anything, ever.