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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 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 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.
political scientific
Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data. Robert Sullivan
political revolution consciousness
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot. Russell Brand
political synthesis moral
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane. Rose Macaulay
political emotion unpredictable
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion. William S. Burroughs
political trying various
Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies Samuel P. Huntington
political communism
What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism. William F. Buckley, Jr.
political hell chad
Where the hell is Chad? Richard M. Nixon
political resigning
I have impeached myself by resigning.
political campaigns falsity
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting. Rich Lowry
style
I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK.
style
We've got to play our style of basketball. (Being physical) is not our style of basketball. Ronnie Brewer
style intellectual energy
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. Richard Whately
style satisfied
I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works. Toyo Ito
style rhythm melody
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
style today emotion
I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. Vinnie Vincent
style england united-states
I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time. Robert Pattinson
style addresses speech
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire
style acquire
To acquire style, begin by affecting none. William Strunk, Jr.