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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
mathematics program trouble tutor
If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do. William Booth
math balance-and-harmony mind
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. Deepak Chopra
math conservative republican
You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math. Dave Ramsey
mathematics preferred
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising. Clive Granger
math thinking creative
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols. Brian Greene
math unique medicine
As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual. Mark Cuban
math insatiable-hunger awakening
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. A. N. Wilson
math people required saw work
Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt. Robert Scoble
math magnificence study
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. Charles Caleb Colton
divides doubles friendship joy
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
divides enter sensation time
Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things. Octavio Paz
divides food good great listen music tastes
I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us. Marcus Samuelsson
divides food good tastes
There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
divides relevant role seems trying understand
My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious. Daniel Pipes
divides somewhere walking
I'm walking down the lineThat divides me somewhere in my mind. Green Day
divides greater
What unites us, is much greater than what divides us. Pope John XXIII