Plato Quotes
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
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Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
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We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.
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I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
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I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
