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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 philosophy mind
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Werner Heisenberg
plato thinking ideas
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
plato tangled razors
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor. Willard Van Orman Quine
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 eye imagination
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel. William Butler Yeats
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
eyes open wide
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin
eyes fire wants
He (Wallace) has fire in his eyes and wants go out a a winner. Larry McReynolds
eyes football friend greatest neighbor player
He was a warrior, a neighbor and a friend ... In the eyes of many he was the greatest football player of all time. Paul Tagliabue
eyes mean open reality seems
Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple. Teller
eyes invent mouth
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth
eyes stars twilight
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . . William Wordsworth
eyes opened period pitches short throw
He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time. Joe Girardi
eyes four saw
He's just got a different look in his eyes from when I saw him three, four years ago.
eye ordinary seemed
He seemed to have an eye for the out-of-the-ordinary in the ordinary location.
imagination knowledge
Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
imagination
'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series. Kate Winslet
imagination
It could be anything. It's up to a person's imagination of what they can make a Colonel.
imagination stretch woods
We've been very lucky, but we're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination.
imagination simplicity firsts
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. Antoni Gaudi
imagination needs terrible
What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket. Richard P. Feynman
imagination
Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.
imagination statistics fiction
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
imagination quality world
[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others. Rebecca West