It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody's motivations for display and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“[On Socrates] My decision to prove reincarnation to the sophomoric cavemen of Athens, quite possibly, was the best decision I made for… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one. — Plato Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato Copy Share Image
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. — Plato Copy Share Image
How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
“It was about as close as you could get to the platonic ideal of a ham, if Plato had spent more time… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
“...when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...” — Plato Copy Share Image
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers… — Plato Copy Share Image
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
“My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. — Plato Copy Share Image
We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to… — Plato Copy Share Image
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