Top 1200 Plato's Republic Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

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

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

An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.

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

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

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

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

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

Behind The Curtain of the Night is a life after death movie and it is based on a best-selling novel in the Czech Republic. It is a true story, and together with director Dalibor Stach, producers Milan Friedrich and Phil Goldfine, we were able to bring such a meaningful, important, and powerful story onto the big screen. We were so blessed that we got to shoot in the best historical locations throughout the entire Czech Republic from Prague to Karlovy Vary and many other important locations.

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

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

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

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

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

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

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

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

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?

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

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

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

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

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

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

It is quite difficult to establish a clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship, as the causes are manifold and closely connected. It is simply not correct to link the level of democracy to prosperity. It is absolutely clear that the economic wealth of Saudi Arabia exceeds the performance of the Czech Republic. But apparently democracy is quite stable in the Czech Republic, which cannot be said about Saudi Arabia. As we delve into the past, we must not forget about the existing model of society.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

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

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 owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

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

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

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

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

The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic.

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

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.