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plato common-sense may
Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily. Bertrand Russell
plato emotional ideas
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force. Bertrand Russell
plato arguing argument
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it. Bertrand Russell
plato long greek
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian. Bertrand Russell
plato should-have people
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history. Bertrand Russell
plato purpose world
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. Bertrand Russell
plato two preparation
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two. Bertrand Russell
plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
people
Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country. Yahya Jammeh
people willing
In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs. Yossi Vardi
people skeptical sudden telling wrist
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself. Yancy Butler
people
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' Ian Mckellen
people
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?' Ian Mckellen
people
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers. Irwin Thomas
people trying
I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve. Irwin Rose
people tendency
Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax. Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
people
When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else. Imani Hakim
age
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. Twyla Tharp
age american-musician
There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets. Young Buck
age brought call classify industry music neither pop small term threw together
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name. Yanni
agenda capable contest endorsing parliament produce reform sad seat
I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece. Yanis Varoufakis
age cannot english-dramatist
Age is like love, it cannot be hid. Thomas Dekker
age english-dramatist fool gilded saint thinks wisdom
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. Thomas Dekker
age heart reverent triumph
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age Thomas Aldrich
age bar great lying singing weddings
I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline. Idina Menzel
age people though worse
I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't. Ian Mckellen