Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ...… — Plato Copy Share Image
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly… — Plato Copy Share Image
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.” — Plato Copy Share Image
And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato Copy Share Image
Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And the one childishly non-scientific mind who molded a childish brain into an excessively curious one is Gadadhar Chatterjee. Without this man,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been as instructive in exploring the notion of authenticity as relearning the work of the great philosophers Aristotle and Plato.… — Tom Hayes Copy Share Image
