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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.
training crosses intensity
Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover. Brett Hoebel
training black weapons
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training. Bonnie Jo Campbell
training
Through this cascading system, we will end up training everyone the same way.
training diagnosis knows
I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis. Andy Kindler
training trying technique
Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength. Angelo Dundee
training reviews plenty
I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training! Rick Moody
training combat
The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat. Richard Marcinko
training rugby promotion
With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training. Mark Zupan
training too-much sides
The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that. Mark Spitz
important elements response
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. Archie Shepp
important bombs bikinis
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. Diana Vreeland
important firsts steps
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something. Blake Mycoskie
important want waste
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. Dean Kamen
important age birth
How old are you? If your first reflex is to reply with your chronological age, the number on your birth certificate, you are only one-third correct. There are actually two additional, and more important, indicators of age. And the exciting news is that it is within your power to adjust both of these other "age indicators" and truly grow younger and live longer. Deepak Chopra
important suggestions customers
It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions. David Neeleman
important minimum-wage levels
I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point. Bernie Sanders
important legends fierce
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.
important done found
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. Donald Hall