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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 philosophy mind
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Werner Heisenberg
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 liars lying
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me? Margaret Atwood
sacrifice
I am devoted, dedicated, a sacrifice to Your Name. Granth Sahib
sacrificed understand
He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have. Max Cleland
sacrifice mind make-up-your-mind
You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package. Richard DeVos
sacrifice men ideas
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices. William Robertson Smith
sacrifice color tree
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay William S. Burroughs
sacrifice self deception
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). Sarah Ban Breathnach
sacrifice evil giving
It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil. Veronica Roth
sacrifice may pleasure
Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience. Samuel Johnson
sacrifice our-veterans giving
We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause. Ronald Reagan
grace sin holy
As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin. Richard Baxter
grace arbitrary divine
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. Rebecca West
grace innocent divine
But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine. William Wordsworth
grace knows
Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are. Rob Bell
grace may incredibles
Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen! Tullian Tchividjian
grace way christianity
Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith. Robert Jeffress
grace great
All is, if I have grace to use it so, / As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. John Milton
grace gone guests
A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone Emily Dickinson
grace held infant love married sam sang songs youngest
When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.' Ann Hood