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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 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 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.
civilization local pillar
I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization. Stewart Brand
civilization long achievement
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization? Rose Macaulay
civilization political democracy
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. Winston Churchill
civilization evil specialization
Specialization is the great evil of civilization. Wendell Berry
civilization existence free laws man process progress ruled setting society toward
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand
civilization limitless
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities Mark Twain
civilization commitment company effort group individual society team
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi
civilization decisive human indeed producing range western
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals. Paul Johnson
civilization founder human instead insult stone
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud
too-much littles manners
Better too much form than too little. Richard Whately
too-much knows
Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge! William Shatner
too-much likeable humans
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them. Robert Wilson Lynd
too-much appearance
Trust not too much to appearances Virgil
too-much trouble
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much. William Howard Taft
too-much too-much-information information
Too much information is rather deadening. Willa Cather
too-much pressure force
I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure. Wayne McGregor
too-much brave-new-world-happiness brave-new-world-freedom
What is too much? There is no such thing! Roberto Cavalli
too-much needs drink
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave - but there's no need to be in the passing lane. Robert Orben