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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 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.
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
rivers water abundance
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. William Whipple
rivers appreciate water
The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance? Sarah Ban Breathnach
rivers borders fish-tanks
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. Norman MacCaig
rivers egotism
Pissing in a river, watching it rise. Patti Smith
rivers flow fleeting
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new. Ovid
rivers splits force
The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.
rivers path needs
To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river. Matthew Fox
rivers mind entertainment
The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds. Ken Auletta
rivers steps greek-philosophy
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. Mary Renault
gold wants win
He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored. Jerry Colangelo
gold medals within
It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days. Thomas Morgenstern
gold medal says silver
He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles. George Babicz
golden green orange shades
He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night. Andrew Marvell
gold persuading orators
Gold is a deep-persuading orator. Richard Barnfield
gold doe ends
time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold? Tracy K. Smith
goldfish had-a-great-time i-can
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl. Robert Plant
gold treasure danger
The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Samuel Johnson
gold hunger
The accursed hunger for gold. Virgil