Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable… — Plato Copy Share Image
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely… — Plato Copy Share Image
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by… — MJ DeMarco Copy Share Image
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds… — Isaiah Berlin 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
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to… — Plato Copy Share Image
An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
