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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
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.
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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.
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.
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.
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.
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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.
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.
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
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.
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.
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.
In all the good Greek of Plato
I lack my roastbeef and potato.
A better man was Aristotle,
Pulling steady on the bottle.
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
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.
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
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.
Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
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.
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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.
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
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.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
[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.
I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
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?
