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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
desire far hope soon
As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison. Jose Maria
desire involved maybe pinnacle premier priority racing series view
Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition. Robert Clarke
desire families hearing talked
Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective. Alphonso Jackson
desire good kid pool room saw
Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that. Joe Browne
desire quests unions
The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved. Baha'u'llah
desire world wonder
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. C. S. Lewis
desire littles matter
It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going. Janet Guthrie
desire bread doe
Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
desire suits honest
individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others) Dan Ariely
flower smell giving
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle
flower guy plastic-flowers
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things. Bai Ling
flower teaching garden
Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head. Arthur Koestler
flower school kids
If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful. Carol Burnett
flower hunting owl
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting. Alan Garner
flower garden thinking
Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done. Jane Austen
flower single-rose want
If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!' Delta Burke
flower tree looks
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. Eckhart Tolle
flower shining mind
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world. Eckhart Tolle