Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard;… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to… — Plato 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
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
“Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. ( Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth .)” — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Many have rehashed the great works of Plato, and coming forward to the 20th century even Napoleon Hill gave us rehashed woo-woo… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called… — Francois Viete Copy Share Image
In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist;… — Claude Simon Copy Share Image
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that… — Plato Copy Share Image
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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