Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard;… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
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
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate,… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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