Plato Quotes

286 quotes by 150 authors

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither. — Edward Abbey
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing… — Ray Bradbury
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for… — Jacques Derrida
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side… — Madeleine L'Engle
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. — G. Stanley Hall
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here. — Plato
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god. — Plato
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch. — Plato
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. — Plato
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal. — Plato
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. — Plato
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato
So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality… — Plato
The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin. — Plato
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to… — Plato
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible… — Plato
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had… — Plato
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. — Plato
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. — Plato

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