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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.
worst-enemy sun allergic
I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy. Trick Daddy
worst-enemy decision devil
Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. Whitney Houston
worst-enemy mediocrity prosperity
Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity. Henry Ford
worst-enemy sometimes projects
I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects. Kim Basinger
worst-enemy knees helping
Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.' Charles Spurgeon
worst-enemy modern-life cuban
We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans. Ed Koch
worst-enemy choices mind
Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make. Demi Lovato
worst-enemy airline passengers
United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either. David Letterman
enemy focus leadership people pitch solid terrific trying worst
He's always a person that people are trying to pitch around. He's his own worst enemy at times. When he can focus on doing the little things in the game, he's a terrific player. He's been very solid for us and his leadership has been tremendous. Jason Portz
enemy armor addresses
The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it. William Shenstone
enemy annoying stills
No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect. William Saroyan
enemy unions utopia
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Will Durant
enemy melancholy industry
Industry is the enemy of melancholy William F. Buckley, Jr.
enemy relief affection
The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection. Samuel Johnson
enemy citizens honorable
I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.
enemy quality meals
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. Samuel Richardson
enemy mountain kindred
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. William Cowper