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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 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 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 needs problem
The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need. Elizabeth Kostova
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
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 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
historical revolution fantasy
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. David Mitchell
historical excess world
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species. David Korten
historical empires literature
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Dave Barry
historical ignorant judgment
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders. Camille Paglia
historical today commodity
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. C. L. R. James
historical democracy demand
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy, Ai Weiwei
historical intellectual use
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead. Arnold J. Toynbee
historical facts fiction
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms. Antony Beevor
historical mythology
I like mythology - anything historical. Cassie Steele
facts may opinion
You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact . Charles Spurgeon
facts embarrassing theft
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. David Graeber
facts economic globalization
Globalization is a fact of economic life Carlos Salinas de Gortari
facts sacred comment
Comment is free but facts are sacred. C. P. Scott
facts republican celebrate
Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
facts sometimes sometimes-in-life
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you. Aidan Chambers
facts accused resent
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
facts investigation mark
A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. Bliss Carman
facts film more-money
Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features. Bill Plympton