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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
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Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world. Julian Baggini
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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
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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
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. B. C. Forbes
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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
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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
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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
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Comparison is the death of true self-contentment. John Powell
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. William Shakespeare
contentment unhappy not-happy
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it. Alan Bennett
yoga simple contentment
When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is. Cheri Huber
contentment wish littles
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb
wisdom hands contentment
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment. Chanakya
integrity mind contentment
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
believe talking contentment
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers. Charles Frazier