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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
speak
You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay Charles Dickens
speak-english japan computer
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. Alan Perlis
speak foolish young
... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna. Darren Shan
speak elegance defined
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. Carolina Herrera
speaks-out abuse excess
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right. Camille Paglia
speak politician enough
The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough. Carl Hiaasen
speaking
Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take? Lucinda Williams
speaks tongue truth
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth Irish Sayings
speaks-out willing direct
I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out. Bev Perdue
speak-the-truth draws exhilarating
Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back. Storm Jameson