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plato years brooklyn
Robert Nozick 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.
plato eye vision
Virginia Woolf 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…
plato inspiration thinking
Rebecca Solnit 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?
plato swans style
Joseph Joubert Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
plato men evil
Marcus Tullius Cicero Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
plato men errors
Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Paul Vixie 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.
plato republic doe
Pete Seeger 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."
philosophy science engineering
Richard P. Feynman Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
philosophy design innovation
Roger Martin When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
philosophy ideas should
Umberto Eco Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
philosophy believe opportunity
Reid Hoffman We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
philosophy discovery political
William Kristol Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
philosophy law medicine
William James The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
philosophy mind quiet
William James To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
philosophy mind states
William James Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
philosophy thinking stubborn
William James Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
thinking
Michael Assael His thinking was a little off and too complicated.
thinking media government
Alex Jones A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.
thinking
Kurt Ritchie I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.
thinking entertainment escapists
Rob Zombie I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.
thinking people trying
Rob Brown Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial."
thinking people way
Rob Brown Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.
thinking guitar ideas
Rob Halford We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.
thinking want suits
Richard O'Brien Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.
thinking ants computer
Richard Paul Evans When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.