Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
“The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a… — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis… — Liz Greene Copy Share Image
We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer… — Plato Copy Share Image
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. — Plato Copy Share Image
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me. — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
