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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
reason return senator wrong
Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money. Tessa Hafen
reason success
Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.
reason-why lord virtuous
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10) Charles Spurgeon
reason
Faith is reason at rest in God.
reason gender authority
Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness. Deborah Tannen
reason poet mathematician
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. Edgar Allan Poe
reason no-reason repeats
There is no reason to repeat bad history. Eleanor Holmes Norton
reason treated
For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.
reason-why election reason
Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible. Ahmed Chalabi
wells organized persons
Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.
wells alas loveliness
I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well
wells
Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for. David Nicholls
wells
Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself Abraham Lincoln
wells persons ifs
If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased. Alan Cohen
wells
Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well. William Shakespeare
wells prodigals
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.
wells mining
Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch. David Talbot
wells queensland happenings
Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else. Campbell Newman