Bears Quote by Benjamin Jowett Download Open image “Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.” — Benjamin Jowett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bears Communication Dialogue Plato Plato s Play Similarity
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be… — Bertrand Russell 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 to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.” — Robin Waterfield Copy Share Image
“Socrates, the dialectical hero of the Platonic drama, reminds us of the kindred nature of the Euripidean hero who must defend his actions with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance… — Plato Copy Share Image
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford]… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
“Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
“The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.” — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold… — James McBride Copy Share Image
