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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.
rewards-in-life determined difficulty
Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you. Brian Tracy
rewards done deeds
The reward of a good deed is in having done it. Elbert Hubbard
rewards criminals behavior
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior. Ted Nugent
rewards labor
The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it. John Ruskin
rewards pleasure payment
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great. Euripides
rewards students chairs
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward. George Steiner
rewards praise process
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process. Christoph Waltz
rewards trash cycles
I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself. Jeff Bridges
rewards rich series society ted tiptoe
Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.
truth-is wells sincerely
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much. Clarice Lispector
truth-is foe
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe. Aristophanes
truth-is propaganda
The truth is the best propaganda. Adolf Hitler
truth-is you-choose
The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place. Chuck Palahniuk
truth-is can-not falsehood
Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it. Ambrose Bierce
truth-is obliged our-lives
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it. Andre Gide
truth-is divides
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth. Thomas Brooks
truth-is
Truth is mighty and will prevail
truth-is christ relation
No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre