“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times'… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato. — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
