Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato. — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I had no idea what philosophy was until I went to college at UBC. I first read Hume and Plato, so naturally… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
First and foremost, note that Plato always wrote dialogues, and never attempted to produce a theoretical or scientific treatise. This is a… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these? — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.” — Robin Waterfield Copy Share Image
Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I have no clue what Plato was talking about when he said that the unexamined wife was not worth leaving. I don't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
