Plato Quotes
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
Plato
Quotes to Explore
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
Radhanath Swami
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.
John Roy Anderson
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If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.
Bette Midler
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We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
C. S. Lewis
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
Hippocrates
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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
Aristotle
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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
Aristotle
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Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
William Cowper
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To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.
Andrew Bacevich
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God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'
Witness Lee
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Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
Alan Sillitoe
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I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.
Cold Cave
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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
Plato
