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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.
emotional creative speed
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional. Carol Kane
emotional world earth
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. Charles Dudley Warner
emotional self brilliant
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. Charles Stross
emotional thinking intellectual
I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore. Ricky Gervais
emotional listening important
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. Brian Eno
emotional people levels
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones that ambiguous on the emotional level.
emotional moving
very emotional and very moving to be here to see these sites. Laura Bush
emotional interesting parent
I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene. David Schwimmer
emotional clubs radio
The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional. David Guetta
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. Carol Vorderman
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. Carlos Castaneda
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.