Top 836 Plato's Cave Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If you are after truth, leave your cave!

I sport a cave-man mentality.

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.

Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.

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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

I really like Cold Cave.

You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that.

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

Plato was a bore.

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.