Hospiedimmo Quotes & Sayings

For Plato, if two individuals have some common attribute and so are describable by the same predicate-'Tom is a man'; 'Dick is a man'-then there is something in virtue of which Tom and Dick (together with all other referents of the predicate nominative 'man') have this common attribute. This something is the ideal Form man, which Form is what really, ultimately exists, whereas individual men are just temporal appearances of the Form, with a kind of borrowed or derivative existence, like shadows or projected images. That's a very simplified version of the O.O.M., but not a distorted one-and even at this level it should not be hard to see the influences of Pythagoras and Parmenides on Plato's ontological Theory of Forms, which the O.O.M. is an obvious part of. — David Foster Wallace

And through it all was the pervasive sound of money. Money lost. Money found. Spent. Earned. Exchanged. Gambled. Wasted. Tainted lucre, wealth corrupted by those who found success on the suffering of others. — S.G. Night

Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before. — William Shakespeare

There are many levels of truth. — Alan Dershowitz

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all. — John Wooden

You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion. — Debasish Mridha

He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke that hurt him. — W. Somerset Maugham

There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable — Wayne Dyer