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plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato philosophy different
Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices. William James
plato home thinking
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think. Will Durant
plato philosophical giving
You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions. Richard Rorty
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 men what-matters
Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else? The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step! Robert Musil
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 writing men
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible William Blake
plato philosophy mind
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Werner Heisenberg
philosophical fundamentalist-religion mind
As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect. Richard Dawkins
philosophical
Time itself comes in drops.
philosophical passion men
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.
philosophical men views
The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.
philosophical matter cases
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
philosophical surfing mind
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
philosophical understanding abnormal
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
philosophical essence genius
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
philosophical quality ethics
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
giving maybe
I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit. Jesper Parnevik
giving good greenspan markets reality
Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him. David Jones
giving inside needed points willing
He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win. Tony Wingen
giving model role spirit true
He's got a true spirit of giving and he's a role model to many people. David Grant
giving lives
It comes from service. It is by giving our lives away that we find meaning, because that's the way we're wired, I believe, by God. Rick Warren
giving serves
I thought we would probably do Henrik well by giving him a breather before he went over to Europe, so it serves two purposes. Tom Renney
giving guys hanging proud together whatever
Whatever it is, we have to find a way to get over it. All I know is (that) I'm proud of the guys for hanging with me, hanging together and not giving up. Jake Plummer
giving honor perseverance whatever
Whatever honor there is in giving up, I want no part of.
giving school support today
Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year. Jeanine Pirro