Plato Quotes

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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite… — Hannah Arendt
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto… — Saint Augustine
A well begun is half ended. — A. C. Benson
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry… — Joseph Parker
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' — Owen Wister
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked… — George Herbert
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... — Erwin Schrodinger
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no… — George Herbert
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated. — John Desmond Bernal
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. — Isaac Newton
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds… — Irenaeus of Lyons
I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate… — Liz Greene
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them,… — Bill Maher
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. — Harold Bloom
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Nathaniel Parker
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from… — Horace Bushnell

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