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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.
maybe night open percent stay wild
A wild guess, maybe 5 or 10 percent stay open all night.
maybe talk
Now maybe they'll talk about us more than the Cubs, Tim Raines
maybe size
The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,
maybe
That's interesting. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.
may argument scales
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. Benjamin Cardozo
may individual difficulty
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. Jane Austen
may rewards tendencies
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
may call-me sinner
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself. Brigitte Bardot
maybe signing unless
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people. Dana Stabenow
injustice scream easy
For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream. Elie Wiesel
injustice sixth-sense
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
injustice realizing combat
It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice Sergey Lavrov
injustice lawyer empty
As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty. Ralph Nader
injustice family-values household
Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.
injustice highest
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.