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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
democracy france worrying
like a thunderbolt ... particularly worrying for France and for our democracy. Lionel Jospin
democracy love maybe means searching telling
Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our democracy and who are searching for the truth. Corazon Aquino
democracy ensure fair free victory
Now we must ensure a free and fair election. This is a big victory for democracy. Ranil Wickremesinghe
democracy dreams expect influence spoke state wildest
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to influence state law. Little old me spoke and I was heard. It?s democracy in action.
democracy public-education
An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy Diane Ravitch
democracy slavery poverty
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. Democritus
democracy problem miscellaneous
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it? Eleanor Roosevelt
democracy rifles bombers
The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. Edward Abbey
democracy instead
I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy. David Anderson
equally talk using
Let us not talk about using force; we are equally strong. In fact, we can swat your ass. Nikita Khrushchev
equally liberty means perspective rank relativism tolerance truly turned
Liberty has turned into licentiousness, and tolerance for dissenters has become little more than rank relativism and nihilism. All perspectives are equally valid, which means no perspective is truly valid. Jonah Goldberg
equals job less litigation plus regulation taxation
Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation. Marsha Blackburn
equal income nearly net quarters three
Net income for the first three quarters of 2005 is nearly equal to all of 2004, Michael Eisner
equal life money roughly tricks
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
equality equally man treated
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to man, but that you treat yourself equally the way you treat a man Marlo Thomas
equals
One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery. Charlotte Rampling
equal greater three
No one is even equal to You in the three worlds; how can there be one greater than You? O Being of Incomparable Glory.
equally few including open red source
Only a few companies, including the open source vendor Red Hat, handles vulnerabilities in an equally responsible way.