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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
republic tenure
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated. Wendell Phillips
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 may scar
Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars. Jane Yolen
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 mystery theater
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are. Alejandro Jodorowsky
doe knows
He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows. Alfred Korzybski
doe want kind
I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted. Alec Baldwin
doe matter
...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters. Aldous Huxley
doe
Time does not exist - we invented it Albert Einstein