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plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato years brooklyn
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. Robert Nozick
plato eye vision
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life… Virginia Woolf
plato philosophy mind
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Werner Heisenberg
plato men average
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee. Walter Kaufmann
plato inspiration thinking
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? Rebecca Solnit
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Joseph Joubert
plato circles bottles
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished. Koren Zailckas
plato liars lying
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me? Margaret Atwood
excellence body lions
The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion. Woody Allen
excellence hogs men virtue
The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue Benjamin Franklin
excellence soil action
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Meister Eckhart
excellence outstanding accomplish
To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
excellence lasts stories
You're only as good as your last story. Helen Thomas
excellence service teams work
When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them. Patrick Kane
excellence kingdoms might
Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence. Bill Johnson
excellence each-day strive
Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day Brian Tracy
excellence excellent teach
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. Baltasar Gracian
littles courses
Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all. Carl Jung
littles way tiny
I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life. Rob Zombie
littles purpose study
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator. Richard Baxter
littles doe draws
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things. Renzo Piano
littles should duty
it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult. Rebecca West
littles consideration rationale
Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration. Russell Brand
littles introspective persons
As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.
littles hyperbole i-can
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. Ron Chernow
littles might sides
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off. William Faulkner