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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.
believe defining discontent emotions experience great intense less minds passion qualities suffering vital ways wonder
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. Kay Redfield Jamison
believed bummed goal last lost missed taken tougher win
I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances. Alex Guerrero
believe car few looked lucky next small survived
I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.
believe knowing
Knowing these individuals as I do, I believe them,
believe best boys brought few high last learn night points position running season seeing short stage strides team time tough town weight
Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.
believe kiss sure
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ... Robert Browning
believe kids practice
Kids believe practice makes perfect. It doesn't. It makes permanent. Mike Jarvis
believe experience personally
I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.
believe call chances definitely enjoyed living modeling quit taking
I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life. Gisele Bundchen
books cats cute forget garfield kid name pick says stop wrong
Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.
books choice freedom key kids motivated reason
Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited. James Patterson
books critical fiercely harry kids love potter
Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion. Spike Jonze
book interested kids start summer supplies taking thinking vacation
Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.
book game golf good itself justifies painting personal photograph picture playing taking wrote
I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it. William Rehnquist
bookstore crime love people shelves solving
Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.
book good happier knowledge
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier Kathleen Norris
book cannot minutes ought
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. Lord Byron
book jamie someday wrote
I actually wrote it down when Jamie said that. I'm going to use it in my book someday ? if I ever write a book.