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plato real ideas
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion. Arthur Koestler
plato book reading
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted. Anna C. Brackett
plato people haughtiness
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. Stephen Jay Gould
plato philosophy philosophical
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
plato philosophical knowledge
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead
plato men intelligent
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. Plato
plato philosophy drinking
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
plato honesty dishonesty
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
plato ignorance doors
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
firsts said wanted
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many. Barbara Mikulski
firsts feels taggart
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart Ayn Rand
firsts
You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all Brian Tracy
firsts put-first-things-first thrown
Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things. C. S. Lewis
firsts bars bills
When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting Bobby Darin
firsts saws migraine
After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine. Claire Forlani
firsts
The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again. Billy Campbell
firsts succeed motto
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried. Billy Collins
firsts lasts composing
La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first. Blaise Pascal
blind conflict ethics required rules senate senator trust weak
The Senate ethics rules are so weak that a senator is not required to set up a blind trust if there is a conflict of interest.
blind exactly excited knew living maybe signing
To some extent, she did. She knew who he was, and I think that was part of what excited her about him. She didn't know exactly what she was signing up for, maybe she didn't know how it would feel to be living this life. But she was not blind to what was going to be happening. Edie Falco
blinds cleaning difficult home
What's difficult about cleaning blinds at home is that it's very messy.
blinders hip plow slow stay trends true
We just plow through it all. We put the blinders on and just go. We don't slow down for trends or what's not hip anymore. We just stay true to ourselves. James Hetfield
blindness conceive cruelty fugitive hard independence patriotic people utter
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. Robert Green Ingersoll
blind pale lost
Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank! Pablo Neruda
blind-spots medicine people
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing. Michael Crichton
blind hope idealism inspire proverb
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back. Don Henley
blind both fall leaders leaders-and-leadership shall
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.