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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
writing satanic television
Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion. Anton LaVey
writing hopefully knows
Hopefully, I write what I don't know. Robert Creeley
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.
writing intelligent thinking
I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are. Robert Cormier
writing needs phases
Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter. Robert Collier
writing space people
I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven. Rob Thurman
writing scripts mainstream
[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see. Rob Zombie
writing order opposites
I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego. Rob Chapman
writing
That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old. Rob Halford
mental showing wants
He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes. Eric Steinbach
men
'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary. Grant Heslov
mention
He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy. Chris Phillips
mentally players tough
He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen. Malik Rose
mental second seems toughness
He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.
mentality strong winning
He's got that winning mentality and we need strong characters.
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
mentally physically prepared
We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .
mentally tougher
We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.