The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of… — Plato Copy Share Image
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. — Old Tom Morris Copy Share Image
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that… — Plato Copy Share Image
All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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