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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.
knowledge neurosis use
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. Arthur Adamov
knowledge technology practice
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov
knowledge delay height
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn. Desiderius Erasmus
knowledge reflection half
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Alexander Pope
knowledge library way
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. Daniel Dennett
knowledge learning roots
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. Confucius
knowledgeable-person ignorant may
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another. Albert Camus
knowledge-and-power information-knowledge people
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy
knowledge penetration knows
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. Victor Hugo