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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
knowledge likes manage maybe mayor plan public talk works
Mayor Coble likes to talk about the knowledge economy. Maybe what we need first is more knowledge about how to plan and manage public works projects. Kevin Fisher
knowledge love trains
My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock. Darin Strauss
knowledge trying
My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that. Daisy Ridley
knowledge mean reflection
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
knowledge men differences
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned. Elbert Hubbard
knowledge humility rare-person
To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people. Eleanor Roosevelt
knowledge done know-how
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do. Eduardo Chillida
knowledge straw worth
I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn. William Butler Yeats
knowledge learning somebody street technical
Somebody in their 50s is going to have a lot more not only technical knowledge, but also street knowledge than somebody in their 20s who's still on a learning curve. Bob Berg
geometry difficult prove
Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not. Plato
geometry poetry-is subjects
Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert
geometry poetry-is precise
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
geometry
Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. Pythagoras
geometry sects
There are no sects in geometry. Voltaire