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Last updated on October 21, 2024.
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.
If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.
Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.
We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.
My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.
The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.
Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?
There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind
Please tell me the cave just had a little indigestion. (Kat)
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'
In all the good Greek of Plato
I lack my roastbeef and potato.
A better man was Aristotle,
Pulling steady on the bottle.
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave
Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.
I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
I want to inspire and educate people and just be an Aladdin's cave for the magpie crafters that are already out there.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
