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plato real ideas
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion. Arthur Koestler
plato book reading
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted. Anna C. Brackett
plato people haughtiness
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. Stephen Jay Gould
plato philosophy philosophical
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
plato philosophical knowledge
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead
plato men intelligent
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. Plato
plato philosophy drinking
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
plato honesty dishonesty
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
plato ignorance doors
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
republican democrat katrina
We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me. Donna Brazile
republican abandoned raised
I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans. Stephanie Miller
republican criticize
Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans Megyn Kelly
republic tenure
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated. Wendell Phillips
republican honored
I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not. Joe Lando
republican economy knows
Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy. Lyndon B. Johnson
republican democrat humans
I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human. Chely Wright
doe impossible states
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. Baruch Spinoza
doe anticipation trouble
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
doe anything-can-happen knows
You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does. Carl Yastrzemski
doe may scar
Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars. Jane Yolen
doe sin deals
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve. Brennan Manning
doe too-much enough
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough. Blaise Pascal
doe god-exists ifs
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
doe add novel
The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience. Elizabeth Bowen
doe lucky mindset
God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does. Robert Kiyosaki