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plato common-sense may
Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily. Bertrand Russell
plato emotional ideas
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
plato arguing argument
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.
plato long greek
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
plato should-have people
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
plato purpose world
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
plato two preparation
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two.
plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
knowledge larger longer
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman
knowledge
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. Bernard Beckett
knowledge talking may
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
knowledge inference knows
Whatever we know without inference is mental.
knowledge historical elements
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
knowledge science perception
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
knowledge
the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. Andrew Carnegie
knowledge soon walk
We have the knowledge and want to help. As soon as you walk in the door, we'll get to know you.
knowledge true
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Henry David Thoreau
geometry difficult prove
Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
geometry
Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. Pythagoras
geometry poetry-is subjects
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
geometry poetry-is precise
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
geometry sects
There are no sects in geometry. Voltaire