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plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato years brooklyn
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. Robert Nozick
plato eye vision
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… Virginia Woolf
plato men average
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee. Walter Kaufmann
plato inspiration thinking
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? Rebecca Solnit
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Joseph Joubert
plato circles bottles
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished. Koren Zailckas
plato men evil
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Marcus Tullius Cicero
plato men errors
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.
branches clear leaves run tree
Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot. Jackie Cooper
branches decision issues policy step straight today wrong
These are important policy issues that we have to get straight between our two branches of government, and the decision today is a big step in the wrong direction. Rep. Lawlor
branches bulbs business dead feeling frozen nature ourselves perhaps pull recognize relating
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world. Sadie Jones
branches figure happened left numbers robbery time
Every time there is a robbery at one of our branches we try to figure out what happened and why the numbers go up ... most of us are left scratching our heads. Tom Kelly
branches obstacles formidable
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle. Alexander Hamilton
branches may arms
. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
branches matter becoming
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
branches analysis mathematics
I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up. Stanislaw Lem
branches firsts division
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system Henry Mayhew
statesmen moralist
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. Will Durant
states
The state is not abolished, it withers away. Friedrich Engels
states
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! Jules Verne
states ifs propositions
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it. Milton Friedman
states steps united
there will be steps that the United States will take." () Mike McCurry
states town united
the only town in the United States of that name!
states dissent ifs
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State". Antonin Scalia
states united united-states until wait
Even the United States is soft-peddling sanctions, but I think we need to wait until we know. James Williams
states three weeks
We've had over 45 inquiries from 35 states in three weeks of being live with the web.