Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato. — Edgar Jepson Copy Share Image
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools! — Digory Kirke Copy Share Image
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." -Plato” — Jessica Clare Copy Share Image
“This City is what it is because are citizens are what they are " -Plato” — Red Wemette Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It may well seem that Plato does suggest techne is the best model for moral knowledge. In other words, it may seem… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
“Plato (...) defined knowledge as "justified true belief". To his mind, you could only claim to know something if A) it was… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational.… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether… — Plato Copy Share Image
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“But Socrates did not did not die for good; he lived on in the teaching of Plato. Pythagoras did not die for… — Mara Bar-Serapion Copy Share Image
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“…money and honour have no attraction for them; good men do not wish to be openly demanding payment for governing and so… — Socrates Copy Share Image
But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“THOUGHTS AND REALITY You’ve probably heard of Plato’s allegory of the cave. It’s a story narrated by Socrates in Plato’s Republic, a… — Tanya J. Peterson Copy Share Image
