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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
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.' Source Unknown
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
causes coming creek dome maybe sour surface
Magma's always coming up in Sour Creek dome and going through the system. But maybe there are pulses when more comes up. That may be what causes the surface to rise.
causes concerned damage individual information leaking media
Leaking information to media causes damage not only to the concerned individual but also to the party. Venkaiah Naidu
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Mr. de Soto's contacts with regional leaders, while not as complete as would have been desirable, nevertheless confirmed my concern that the new situation which had emerged following the developments of May, compounding as it does the longstanding causes of friction between India and Pakistan, may have serious implications for peace and security in the region and beyond, Kofi Annan
causes draw evidence handful infection needed obesity people research study
More research is needed to find out if Ad-37 causes obesity in humans. One study was inconclusive, because only a handful of people showed evidence of infection with Ad-37 - not enough people to draw any conclusions.
causes middle noise planes stop
Monitoring is something I have been pursing for years. The noise from the planes causes you stop in the middle of conversations.
causes defense four might offense scores seen worse
When your defense scores two touchdowns and causes four turnovers and you still lose, that's bad. That's real bad. We couldn't do (anything) on offense. That might have been the worse offense I've ever seen ever. Damien Woody
causes weakness atrocities
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Edgar Allan Poe
causes giving society
I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals. Tom Ellis
causes disaster
One of the causes of the disaster is deforestation by thieves, but we don't know who they are.