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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
speak straight
He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter. Jim Glassman
speaks-out political politics
Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up. Sarah Palin
speak latina honestly
Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly." Sandra Cisneros
speak speak-the-truth
Speak truth to power. Milan Kundera
speak
You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed. Ludwig Wittgenstein
speaking-up wife poison
[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself. Emmeline Pankhurst
speaks time
It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.
speak speakers-and-speaking upsetting
It's upsetting for me. I can't speak for everyone else, but I know it's upsetting for me.
speaks work
That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.