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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 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 men evil
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Marcus Tullius Cicero
plato men errors
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
plato real errors
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell. Paul Vixie
plato republic doe
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." Pete Seeger
democracy hate impact undermines
Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people. Karen Aroesty
democracy doe honorable
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. William J. Clinton
democracy world communism
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice. Samuel P. Huntington
democracy journalism crisis
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism. Walter Lippmann
democracy world
In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen. Ruhollah Khomeini
democracy haiti hope learn maturity people
I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.
democracy foreign good honesty jobs message open policy starts
The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy starts in your neighborhood. Laura Bush
democracy event good helps register students
The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.
democracy world
Democracy is good for world peace. Manmohan Singh
despotism secure
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom. Walter Savage Landor
despotism tyranny can-do
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. Alexis de Tocqueville
despotism formidable
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. Georg C. Lichtenberg