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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
love-is emotional cold
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. Arthur Conan Doyle
love-is thinking people
Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same. Cesar Millan
love-is two people
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism. Alain Badiou
love-is labor ifs
Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved. Jane Austen
love-is long people
People love being scared, even for long periods of time. Jason Blum
love-is thinking self
I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self. bell hooks
love-is feelings action
Love is an action, never simply a feeling. bell hooks
love-is light color
When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion. Diane Ackerman
love-is murder
Failure to love is almost like murder. Boris Pasternak
serious
It would take something pretty serious for that to come about. Bob Metzler
serious-business serious
An annuity is a very serious business. Jane Austen
serious novelists want
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible. Douglas Kennedy
serious way environment
There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume. Donald Wuerl
serious looks airline
Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network. Vijay Mallya
serious somewhat
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave. George Washington
seriously thinking
She told me she was thinking seriously about it. Gary Collins
serious mates contests
It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate. Eminem
serious three
I don't know how serious it is. Hopefully, it is not the kind that will keep him out two or three weeks. We have to be careful. Buddy Bell