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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
mayor york
I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11. Joseph J. Lhota
maybe mistakes
I would say maybe there are more mistakes.
maybe
I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year, Joel Klein
maybe past wrote
I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.
maybe
I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older. Sarah Brightman
maybe music
Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music. Sam Hunt
maybe people war
I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine. Thomas Piketty
maybe mom nice pay paying people saying voice
Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. Maybe I come from a working family. Maybe it's the voice of my mom saying, 'You've always got to be nice to people.' I look at it as saying it's going to be fun. Those people are going to be really, really happy. Carlos Mencia
maybe shoot somebody
I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under. Mark Calcavecchia
aptitude candidates coaches fellow few gather job leadership next night number qualities speaking sunday time
I will be speaking to my fellow coaches when we gather for the first time on Sunday night. We have a number of candidates and we will be assessing leadership qualities and their aptitude for the job over the next few weeks. Frank Hadden
aptitude flip learn takes three weapons
He has the aptitude to learn that. He understands he has the weapons it takes to flip a line-up three times and not become predictable.
aptitude-test tests doe
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Dave Barry
aptitude bad maine purpose state test
Basically, I think it's a really bad idea. The Scholastic Aptitude Test has a completely different purpose than the state of Maine said it had in the MEA.
aptitude genius greater
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
aptitude creative dependent men superior women
Men of superior creative aptitude are most dependent on their women.
aptitude capable confident great needs sheer
I think he's a confident guy. He just needs that mind-set that, 'I am capable of doing something special,' just that sheer determination. He's a great worker, a great teammate, has a great aptitude to take instruction.
aptitude
Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life. H. P. Lovecraft
aptitude fields composition
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.