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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
government intention japanese whatsoever
It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me. Robert Jenkins
government greek
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
government interest member neither nor sought statesmen themselves
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy. Robert Toombs
government mistrust ways
The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition. Kurt Andersen
government people shut
Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people. David Scott
government loyalty
Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously. Linda Tripp
government itself left situation
left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq. Hoshyar Zebari
government maps pakistan request
No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.
government hard
No one in government is making hard choices, David Williams
opposites
Nothing exists without its opposite. Chris Crutcher
opposites healthy want
I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite. Dean Ornish
opposites looks models
If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite. Earl Nightingale
opposites watches majority
Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.
opposites looks environment
For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that. David Bowie
opposites may als
Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'
opposites done stuff
Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on. A. R. Rahman
opposites needs horror
...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors. A. S. Byatt
opposites anxiety forever
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. Alan Watts