We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed… — J. G. Farrell Copy Share Image
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato 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
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. — Thomas McEvilley 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
“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the… — William James Copy Share Image
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as… — Plato Copy Share Image
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept is called… — Alexey Stakhov Copy Share Image
Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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