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plato years brooklyn
Robert Nozick 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.
plato eye vision
Virginia Woolf 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…
plato philosophy mind
Werner Heisenberg My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
plato men average
Walter Kaufmann 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.
plato inspiration thinking
Rebecca Solnit 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?
plato philosophy love-is
Milan Kundera He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
plato reason wells
Joseph Addison It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!
plato fall men
Joseph Addison It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
philosophy mean thinking
William Ralph Inge Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
philosophy science engineering
Richard P. Feynman Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
philosophy
Richelle Mead You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.
philosophy design innovation
Roger Martin When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
philosophy ideas should
Umberto Eco Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
philosophy matter remember
Travis Tritt Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.
philosophy believe opportunity
Reid Hoffman We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
philosophy discovery political
William Kristol Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
philosophy easy take-it-easy
Woody Guthrie Take it easy, but take it.
love-is convenient painless
Richard Paul Evans Love is never convenient-and rarely painless
love-is husband-and-wife fever
Richard J. Needham Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
love-is unconditional gods-love
Saint Augustine God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
love-is law significance
Reinhold Niebuhr The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
love-is romantic-love mind
Virginia Woolf Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
love-is avoided
William Wycherley Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
love-is purses cracks
Sarah Silverman I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.
love-is unfinished-business color
Sara Zarr the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
love-is fables fantasy
Sappho Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.