In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)” — Plato Copy Share Image
“...when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...” — Plato Copy Share Image
Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Still blacky bees good clinging you all By the golden gong of Pa Plato’s pall Couplet by Mk Bhutta” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Poet Copy Share Image
“Plato is proved to be more religious than these men, for he allowed that the same God was both just and good,” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato Copy Share Image
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“For all this, man is embodied and trusting in his senses; he had sooner believe in a sensible improbability than in an… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion… — Plato Copy Share Image
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing… — Plato Copy Share Image
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate… — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
“However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common… — John Dowland Copy Share Image
“It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
“In Darwins post-platonische werelds is de variatie de fundamentele werkelijkheid en veranderen berekende gemiddelden in abstracties. We blijven echter de voorkeur geven… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“For Plato, the quickening of the heart that occurred when a person saw his or her loved one was just a step… — Stephen Amidon 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
“Maybe even more important than the D.B.P. [Divine Brotherhood of Pythagoras], ∞-wise is the protomystic Parmenides of Elea (c.515-? BCE), not only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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