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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.
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 honesty dishonesty
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
plato ignorance doors
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
speak-english speak said
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. Aravind Adiga
speak
I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me. Arthur Conan Doyle
speaks-out opposites goal
Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in. Arianna Huffington
speak
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack. Arthur Schopenhauer
speak dave mania
There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak. Dave Pelzer
speak-english goats speak
We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English. Scott Adams
speaks-french japan common
Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away. Sonia Rykiel
speak secrecy caution
What thou seest, speak of with caution. Solon
speak welsh feels
All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh. Taron Egerton