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plato book greatness
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. C. S. Lewis
plato world considering
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world. Julian Baggini
plato play bears
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Benjamin Jowett
plato father thinking
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t. Bill Maher
plato intellectual sausage
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. Bjorn Lomborg
plato names would-be
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher. Demetri Martin
plato atheism age
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets. Denis Diderot
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
plato history secret
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.
real encounters elegance
Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself. Carole Bouquet
real making-love buying
Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location. Carol Leifer
real tvs glitz
The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. Carol Vorderman
reality people sun
There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them. Carlos Fuentes
real reality don-juan
The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. Carlos Castaneda
reality ordinary shallow
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
real lying mean
Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?
reality historical normal
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
real lying self
That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self
ideas mirrors want
I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.
ideas people wrong-ideas
Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.
ideas new-orleans rebuilding
Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman? Carlos Mencia
ideas long people
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else. Carlos Ghosn
ideas perspective important
It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.
ideas political independence
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. Carl Bernstein
ideas tables calculations
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! Carl Friedrich Gauss
ideas giving appetite
You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.
ideas savages would-be
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.