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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 years ideas
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. Ludwig von Mises
plato kind members
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.
plato people leader
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care. Dick Costolo
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 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.
plato play bears
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Benjamin Jowett
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
past talk
Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past, Mark McGwire
past phenomenal several success
Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months, Robert Davies
past region swept waves
Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,
past worrying
One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past. Mike Nugent
past relationship time
Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past. Chris Klein
past woe woes
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
past road rut training
We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong. Landon Donovan
past second-chance people
Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression. Charles R. Swindoll
past ideas fads
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. Diane Ravitch
greatness thinking sin
Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior! Charles Spurgeon
greatness self challenges
At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.
greatness good-things
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great. Demosthenes
greatness men light
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
greatness men thoughtful
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Edgar Allan Poe
greatness men mediocre
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. Elbert Hubbard
greatness people goal
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
greatness rainbow racism
The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty. Eduardo Galeano
greatness using
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. Henry Ward Beecher