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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.
boys children definitely eventually gradually leave might soon stand starting supposed
As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date. Dirk Benedict
boys excellent
The boys and (David) did an excellent job,
boys met thirst wants
I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane. James Corden
boys summer
I see the boys of summer in their ruin. Roger Kahn
boys choir
The Vienna Choir Boys is something I've always wanted to see. To see them in person is just really special.
boys earn fill good local patch program scouting shelves special time
This is a special Scouting program that the boys can earn a patch for. We thought this was a good time to try and fill the shelves of the local pantries.
boys long-ago expectations
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation. Brandon Sanderson
boys kind difficult
The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable Jane Campion
boys definitely picked sideways skinny stick totally
I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.' Krysten Ritter
mental steven toughness
As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.
mental motivation ready
The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.
mentally people tough
Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,
mentally staying warming
It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.
mention mere smile smiles
You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
men important matter
They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men able sometimes
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life. Ben Okri