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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. Stephen Jay Gould
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
plato honesty dishonesty
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. Plato
plato ignorance doors
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. Plato
soul flavor degrees
Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees. Aretha Franklin
soul corruption consumerism
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson
soul age baha
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. Baha'u'llah
soul suffering limits
There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit. C. S. Lewis
soul my-soul
You have my soul and I have your money Charles Bukowski
soul division common
Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature. Aristotle
soul digestion produce
All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth. Aristotle
soul age delight
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage! Ben Jonson
soul body stardust
The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same. Deepak Chopra
said
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. Theodor Reik
said
I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing. Frank Robinson
said cracked knows
Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going. J. R. R. Tolkien
said wiser
You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now. Romy Schneider
said young
Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old. Truman Capote
said
What cannot be said will be wept. Sappho
said heard knows
I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant. Richard M. Nixon
said
The less said about me the better. William Carey
said horns jew
Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns? Jonathan Safran Foer