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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 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 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.
plato real errors
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell. Paul Vixie
plato republic doe
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." Pete Seeger
rewards interest
The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work. Robin Leach
rewards virtue consequence
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. Walter Lippmann
rewards causes goodness
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. Leo Tolstoy
rewards virtue fame
The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards? Juvenal
rewards steadfast ifs
Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith. Joel Osteen
rewards financial impatient
Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards. John Gokongwei
rewards buying next
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end. John Fowles
rewards enough nickels
You know if I had nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin Laden. Jon Stewart
rewards wealth prosperity
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 A. Hodge
truth-is propaganda precious-things
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it. Vladimir Lenin
truth-is private-property property
Truth is not private property. Saint Augustine
truth-is troublesome
Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly Patrick Rothfuss
truth-is absolute-truth constant
Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original. Josh McDowell
truth-is whole-life whole
The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life Lou Ferrigno
truth-is sells
Truth is the easiest thing to sell. Daymond John
truth-is
Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped. Edward Snowden
truth-is interruptions regard
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. C. S. Lewis