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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.
I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.
Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
I take it that didn’t go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf)
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.
John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.
It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.
I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave.
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.
For years we've had leaders who promised to end America's costly wars, only to cave in to the establishment view.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.
I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.
Scripts didn't exist during my time in Bollywood, or, at least, I was never given one. I don't want to act at all and am happy in my cave.
What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave.
That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.
Activist shareholder resolutions do not have to pass to succeed. The process itself can be so injurious to a company that management will cave to demands.
Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you.
They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.
In my man cave, I have tomahawks, throwing knives, and old black-bear furs. There's skulls, weapons everywhere.
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.
What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?
He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!
I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
When you see a picture of a woolly mammoth on a cave wall, that's weirdly similar to a person's lasagna that they thought looked delicious.
I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
