Plato Quotes, Confused Quotes, Twilight Quotes

When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

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Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

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I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Confused Quotes , Self Quotes

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Confused Quotes , Army Quotes

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Truth Quotes , Confused Quotes

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Confused Quotes

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Confused Quotes , Age Quotes

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Sad Quotes , Confused Quotes

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Confused Quotes , Taste Quotes

The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Confused Quotes

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Dog Quotes , Confused Quotes

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Confused Quotes

We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the war, so we have no idea of the exact time, either night or day.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Confused Quotes , War Quotes

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Confused Quotes

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

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