![In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-the-republic-he-plato-states-that-the-enjoyment-of-food-is-not-a-true-plea.jpg)
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pain lying world
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world. Albert Schweitzer
pain privilege lord
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
pain eye animal
No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.
pain mean secret
The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.
pain eye responsibility
The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.
painted
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery. John Burnside
pain small sound
One of my trackers made the sound of a duiker, a small antelope, as if it were in pain. Shelly Williams
painfully poor riches true
No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
pain tragedy
One tragedy here, one tragedy there, ... We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.
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
food fresh liked trained
Lunt was trained as a chef. He liked to use fresh food in his cooking.
food french general less respecting
Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu. Daniel Boulud
food households influence pressures time
Many households have two working spouses, so there are time pressures that influence food purchases.
food lost people stocks
Many people have lost all their food stocks and stoves in the quake ... and they need ready-to-eat food.
food groups mud
Mud is not one of the 4 food groups Nancy Cartwright
food
May all the food I partake be pure.
food men serve tendency
Men still have this tendency to see food as being like fuel. It's there to serve a purpose. Peter Baker
food kids shop
My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them. Rebecca Stead
food
My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food. Jason Wu