All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
George Santayana
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
GEORGE SANTIANO The earth has its music for those who will listen
REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES Had a thought about a knot...then thought naught...
KJFORCE Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.
IAN MACLAREN AKA REV. JOHN WATSON I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work - on eliciting pri...
JEF RASKIN Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When the great universe was wroughtTo might and majesty from naught,The all creative force was -THOU...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX And mankind is naught but a single nation
QURAN When the great universe was wrought
To might and majesty from naught,
The all creative force...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
BIBLE It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
BIBLE Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
ARISTOTLE Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
EMMA GOLDMAN You are naught but a warner.
QURAN a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE smaller and smaller footnote.
MONICA LEWINSKY All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity.
ANDY PAULA The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be po...
KAHLIL GIBRAN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
BETTE DAVIS Plato's dialogues bear...
BENJAMIN JOWETT Naught venture, naught have
PROVERB A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO We all love George Bush and follow George Bush, but everyone is looking for who will be next.
LINDA ROBERTS All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, t...
JANE GREY Plato is boring.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.
RUSS FEINGOLD Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a...
CHARLES STUDD Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
RICHARD LINGARD All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
ADAM MCKAY In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
MADAME SWETCHINE Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
ADA CAMBRIDGE All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.
ROBERT BURTON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unsti...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It's got a big tax cut built into it. That's not a footnote, but a front and center important issue.
WILLIAM GALE At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, whe...
JAMES BEATTIE Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.
ROBIN A.H. WATERFIELD The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Plato was a bore.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, whe...
JAMES BEATTIE A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and u...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now
MICHAEL STIPE There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemble...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCH Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
FRANCESCO PETRARCH Plato, to incline to Christianity.
BLAISE PASCAL Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the...
H. RIDER HAGGARD I understand that [I'm under contract], but at the same time, I thought maybe this would be differen...
JOE BARRY I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all ...
RICHARD GERE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Finishing 16-0 would be a nice footnote and we're going to try to do it. But it's not the ultimate g...
TONY DUNGY I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
VICKI LAWRENCE Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to ...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen
DEAN CAVANAGH I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but inste...
BJORN LOMBORG Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other ...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
JACQUELINE CAREY For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
BEN SCHOTT Once I'm a success, all this depressing shit will just be a little footnote in the massive blog of h...
MARK CORRIGAN My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Surely he reflected and guessed, / But may he be cursed how he plotted; / Again, may he be cursed ho...
QURAN I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope ...
RICHARD GERE Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotl...
HANNAH ARENDT All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD If we go 9-1, it's all for naught if we don't beat Rainier Beach.
ANTHONY WILLIAMS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other'...
LUCRETIUS You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. -Baha'U'Uah.
BAHA'U'UAH All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA One may, with unyielding determination and stubborn persistence, attain competence in any human ende...
SPENCER Y. VANCE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY We thought it would be something that all of our family would definitely remember. I don't think any...
LINDA CARPENTER You're not supposed to put anything extraneous in the invitations, not even a footnote, but you can ...
CALANDRA TERRY Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
VICTORIA PRINCIPAL I just feel like a lot of our effort went for naught.
WAYNE HOSE I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes.
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
JAMES NESBITT
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