Mulk Raj Anand has said that, at the BBC, Orwell could, and would, quote lengthy passages from the Book of Common Prayer.

Because Mac admired that Marrow could quote Iceberg Slim, he taught Marrow how to pimp.

A number is a special case of self evaluation — it really could be written with a quote.

He was well-read, knew poetry, and he could quote Shakespeare.

" Nearly every instructor in the mess " he wrote, " could quote specific instances of prisoners having been murdered on the way back.

Although the film does show that Lawrence could speak and read Arabic, could quote the Quran, and was reasonably knowledgeable about the region, it barely mentions his archaeological travels from 1911 to 1914 in Syria and Arabia, and ignores his espionage work, including a pre-war topographical survey of the Sinai Peninsula and his attempts to negotiate the release of British prisoners at Kut in Mesopotamia in 1916.

John knew Latin and could quote the classical authors.

The ship's motto, as engraved on its dedication plaque, is a quote from the poem Locksley Hall by Alfred Tennyson: " For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see ; Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Since there are passages in Luther's works that could be taken to support either of these meanings, both sides were able to quote passages from Luther defending their interpretation of what he meant.

Isaac Newton was a noted Baconian — his famous quote hypotheses non fingo ( I don't frame hypotheses ) was featured in later editions of the Principia, demonstrating his preference for rules that could be demonstrated by formal proof, as opposed to unevidenced hypotheses.

" ( Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman, co-authors of The Elements of Statistical Learning in their Preface to the Second Edition have a footnote which reads: " On the Web, this quote has been widely attributed to both Deming and Robert W. Hayden ; however Professor Hayden told us that he can claim no credit for this quote, and ironically we could find no ' data ' confirming Deming actually said this.

In describing what met the family on their arrival we quote from the 1882 edition of the History of Manistee Mason and Oceana Counties “ Nothing could be wilder and more uncivilized then the surroundings of the first family of white settlers.

" She could quote poetry more readily than could John Adams ," states McCullogh.

In this connection, too, one may quote the old story, told by some — very improbably — of James II, of the monarch who replied to a lady petitioning him to make her son a gentleman, " I could make him a nobleman, but God Almighty could not make him a gentleman.

However, as claimed by Richard John Neuhaus in the November 2001 issue of his blog-like online journal ' First Things ', when “ asked in 1971 about the correct version of the quote, Niemöller said he was not quite sure when he had said the famous words but, if people insist upon citing them, he preferred a version that listed ‘ the Communists ’, ‘ the trade unionists ’, ‘ the Jews ’, and ‘ me ’.” However, historian Harold Marcuse could not verify that interview.

The website, which omits the context of the quote, could be said to conflate the meaning of " enemy body count " with " civilian deaths caused " and to imply that the US is not interested in the number of civilian deaths its military operations cause.

It became highly influential for at least a generation of Soviet people, e. g. a person could quote the Strugatsky books and be sure of being understood.

Schopenhauer, in Ortega y Gasset's quote, hoped that philosophers like those three men could learn " true and fruitful seriousness, such that the problem of existence would capture the thinker and bestir his innermost being.

Although a liberal himself, he wrote his seven-volume history with such a masterly balance that Catholics, liberals and socialists could quote from it with equal respect in their newspapers or sometimes even in their political gatherings.

Thérèse was so attached to the book and read it so many times that she could quote passages from it from memory in her teens.

Even Plato had difficulties with logic ; although he had a reasonable conception of a deductive system, he could never actually construct one and relied instead on his dialectic.

Toward the end of her career, Plato chose roles that could be considered erotic or even softcore pornography.

After the first three negative calls, a caller named Julie told Plato that she looked and sounded great, and could not fathom why people were attacking her the way they were, and although they were cruel to her, she was supportive.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BCE – 322 BCE ), a student of Plato, promoted the concept that observation of physical phenomena could ultimately lead to the discovery of the natural laws governing them.

Against the conventionalism that the distinction between nature and custom could engender, Socrates and his philosophic heirs, Plato and Aristotle, posited the existence of natural justice or natural right ( dikaion physikon, δικαιον φυσικον, Latin ius naturale ).

For Plato it was not possible to have knowledge of anything that could change or was particular, since knowledge had to be forever unfailing and general.

According to Plato, there are some forms that are not instantiated at all, but, he contends, that does not imply that the forms could not be instantiated.

Plato and Aristotle could be said to have created early examples of comprehensive systems.

Plato and Aristotle could be said to be early examples of comprehensive systems.

Plato proposed that the seemingly chaotic wandering motions of the planets could be explained by combinations of uniform circular motions centered on a spherical Earth, apparently a novel idea in the 4th century.

The early sophists ' practice of charging money for education and providing wisdom only to those who could pay led to the condemnations made by Socrates, through Plato in his Dialogues, as well as Xenophon's Memorabilia.

Plato realized that if virtue was synonymous with wisdom then it could be taught, a possibility he had earlier discounted.

Mannheim believed that relativism was a strange mixture of modern and ancient beliefs in that it contained within itself a belief in an absolute truth which was true for all times and places ( the ancient view most often associated with Plato ) and condemned other truth claims because they could not achieve this level of objectivity ( an idea gleaned from Marx ).

< p > just as Plato was wont to say often to Xenocrates the philosopher, who had the reputation of being rather morose in his disposition, " My good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces ," so if Marius could have been persuaded to sacrifice to the Greek Muses and Graces, he would not have put the ugliest possible crown upon a most illustrious career in field and forum, nor have been driven by the blasts of passion, ill-timed ambition, and insatiable greed upon the shore of a most cruel and savage old age .</ p >

Plato could be regarded as the outstanding philosopher of ' primitive mentality ,' that is, as the thinker who succeeded in giving philosophic currency and validity to the modes of life and behavior of archaic humanity.

Greek philosophers at the time of Plato and other ancient authors have used forms of the word to denote love of a spouse or family, or affection for a particular activity, in contrast to philia ( an affection that could denote friendship, brotherhood or generally non-sexual affection ) and eros, an affection of a sexual nature.

Quite recently Martin Litchfield West identified 306 lines as a core sequence of verses that can be reliably attributed to Theognis since they contain mention of Cyrnus and are attested by 4th century authorities such as Plato and Aristotle, though the rest of the corpus could still contain some authentic verses.

Some similarities between the Demotic texts and Platonic philosophy could be the result of Plato and his followers ' having drawn on Egyptian sources.

The three scholars set out to demonstrate that Christians could hold their own in conversations with learned Greek-speaking intellectuals and that Christian faith, while it was against many of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle ( and other Greek philosophers ), was an almost scientific and distinctive movement with the healing of the soul of man and his union with God at its center — one best represented by monasticism.

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle, like Plato before him, argued that the pursuit of eudaimonia is an " activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue ", which further could only properly be exercised in the characteristic human community — the polis or city-state.

Evola's systematic and detailed references to ancient and modern texts make it difficult to speak about influences, though affinities could exist between Evola and Plato, Oswald Spengler, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Arthur de Gobineau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Meister Eckhart, Homer, Jacob Boehme, René Guénon and certain Catholic thinkers like Juan Donoso Cortés and Joseph de Maistre.

: Therefore for Spirits I am so farre from denying their existence, that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons have their Tutelary, and Guardian Angels: It is not a new opinion of the Church of Rome, but an old one of Pythagoras and Plato ; there is no heresay in it, and if not manifestly defined in Scripiture, yet is it an opinion of a good and wholesome use in the course and actions of a man's life, and would serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common philosophy affordeth no solution.

This also led him to inquire whether it could be possible to ground synthetic a priori knowledge for a study of metaphysics, because most of the principles of metaphysics from Plato through to Kant's immediate predecessors made assertions about the world or about God or about the soul that were not self-evident but which could not be derived from empirical observation ( B18-24 ).