In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness… — Plato Copy Share Image
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational.… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether… — Plato Copy Share Image
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what… — Plato Copy Share Image
Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. — Plato Copy Share Image
Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark,… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control… — Plato Copy Share Image
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