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Last updated on October 22, 2024.
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.
This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army
Living in a republic demands a great deal of us.
Tennis is a big thing in the Czech Republic.
I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.
The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.
Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.
What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible.
The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.
What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.
We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.
[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.
It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in that case he seems naively over-impressed by rather ordinary thought processes.
Socrates was tried in a religious court. He was condemned for disregarding Athens' gods. If you look at the way he speaks at his trial, according to Plato, there seems to be a moment when he realizes this isn't just a game.
Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
Let it be said: Loyalty to the New World Order is disloyalty to the
Republic
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.
Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera.
The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.
It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.
America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
The Czech Republic are in good form and are always tough opposition.
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.
