My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize… — Ken Elmgren 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
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“as architect of choosing... choose. to. live. awakened. entirely. wholly. wildly powerful, deeply masterful, authentically creative, thriving. this is not a hoped-for… — LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier Copy Share Image
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
“The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were… — Lorna Sage Copy Share Image
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living,… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
