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And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.
If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?
When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'
Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.
Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
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.
Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.
The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.
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.
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
Socrates was a great walker. They say he was a fiend for exercise. He was absolutely not shut away in some ivory tower somewhere.
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
In all the good Greek of Plato
I lack my roastbeef and potato.
A better man was Aristotle,
Pulling steady on the bottle.
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.
Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.
Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.
You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
