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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 corruption consumerism
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson
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 age delight
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage! Ben Jonson
soul body research
I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside. Clint Eastwood
soul sells
To buy happiness is to sell soul. Douglas Horton
soul way looks
We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again. Douglas Coupland
soul answers cry
Wacko Glenn Beck is a sad answer to the Sarah Palin endorsement that [Ted] Cruz so desperately wanted. Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul. Donald Trump
soul shadow my-soul
Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow. Adelbert von Chamisso
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
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 notes has-beens
Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said. Thomas a Kempis
said politically-correct
I'm not politically correct; I never said I was. Joshua Homme