“Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a… — Sarah Crossan Copy Share Image
But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But… — David Stove Copy Share Image
“The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same… — Plato Copy Share Image
“He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse” — Plato Copy Share Image
There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that?… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.' — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the… — Don Ameche Copy Share Image
