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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.
ignorance vanity causes
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Blaise Pascal
ignorance prejudice
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. Denis Diderot
ignorance dignity mask
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. Elbert Hubbard
ignorance home america
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
ignorance thinking government
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist. Adolf Hitler
ignorance justice ignorant
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley
ignorance responsibility numbers
Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.
ignorance home journey
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.
ignorance poverty wealth
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
opinion belief absurdity
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Bierce
opinion entitled
Everyone is entitled to my opinion Madonna Ciccone
opinion share findings
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it. Thomas Aquinas
opinion personal-life
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life. Al Pacino
opinion species property
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing. Charles Lamb
opinion potency persons
The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it. Adam Levine
opinion not-afraid vocal
I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there. Adam Lambert
opinion public referendum reflects
This referendum reflects public opinion at this time. George Martin
opinion shift slight toward
there has been a slight shift of opinion toward there being international links. Charles Clark