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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 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 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.
plato real errors
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell. Paul Vixie
plato republic doe
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." Pete Seeger
firsts helping truth-is
Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do. Carl Jung
firsts loses
We can only lose what we have first claimed. Richard Paul Evans
firsts needs construction
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. Umberto Eco
firsts murder follow-me
I know death follows me, but I murder him first. Tupac Shakur
firsts france first-lady
In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else. Valerie Trierweiler
firsts notoriety limelight
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
firsts clubs belfast
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. Van Morrison
firsts study ancient
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived. Upton Sinclair
firsts shows journalist
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. Tyra Banks
blindly copy introduce laws regulation useful western
We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them. Wu Bangguo
blind content life man
I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men. William Butler Yeats
blind-spots vocabulary people
The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time. Wyndham Lewis
blinders doubt hang next prepare
I have no doubt that this team's going to hang in and keep fighting. They're disappointed and frustrated, but they have to put blinders on and prepare for the next challenge. Dom Capers
blind corruption spot
I like him. It's just that he has this blind spot when it comes to corruption. I don't think he ever realizes the seriousness of it. Joe Moore
blind finally heard knowing looking love lovers meet minute
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. Jalal Rumi
blind
Blind yourself, for I am blind. Luigi Pirandello
blind career fear people readers screen stop worthwhile
You can't stop people from innovating, and I don't see that our screen readers will be able to keep up with that. I still think it's worthwhile for a blind person to try a career as a programmer, but I do fear how well that person will do in the long term. Michael Freeman
blind ignorant love perform sorts
The blind and the ignorant perform all sorts of ritualistic actions, they are in love with duality.