Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools! — Digory Kirke Copy Share Image
“The Golden Proportion, sometimes called the Divine Proportion, has come down to us from the beginning of creation. The harmony of this… — Bonnie Gaunt 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
Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I am in love, many things about the world, not just the immediate object of my love, seem lovable. To say… — Robin Waterfield Copy Share Image
It may well seem that Plato does suggest techne is the best model for moral knowledge. In other words, it may seem… — David Roochnik 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
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always… — Plato Copy Share Image
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. — Plato Copy Share Image
Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.” Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
