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The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister. Nick Flynn
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
beautiful plato ideas
Plato's world of ideas is beautiful. Carl Jung
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Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Benjamin Jowett
art plato philosophy
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory - it may only be about some small matter, or it may be about the universe. I think that most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been a result of just such a moment. Bertrand Russell
god plato anger
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. B. C. Forbes
ages aristotle bergman human nature oneself plato serious since socrates thinkers understand
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior. Eric Kandel
damn improvement plato rest
Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate. Louis MacNeice
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
war fighting lasts
Fight to the last gasp. William Shakespeare
years lasts mature
If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years. Alan Jackson
littles lasts would-be
Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say. Alan Colmes
bankers lasts duty
The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth. Alan Blinder
design simplicity lasts
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in. Alan Cooper
mean climbing lasts
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. Alain Robert
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact. Alan Alda
men lasts opinion
The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment. Aiden Wilson Tozer
design hitchhiking lasts
When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale? Chris Campbell