Plato Quotes

286 Plato quotes by 150 unique authors

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts,… — Hayden Carruth
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well! — Joseph Addison
In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's… — Michael Dirda
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 writer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which… — Paul Vixie
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. — Arthur Schopenhauer
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to… — James A. Michener
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it… — Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. — Seneca the Younger
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for… — Marshall McLuhan
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. — Old Tom Morris
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. — James Mark Baldwin
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that… — Dick Costolo
In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's… — Peter Ackroyd
Plato's cave is full of freaks. — Jack Johnson
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with opposed ideologies in… — Gary Gutting
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.… — Susan Sontag
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /… — William Butler Yeats
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered… — Plato

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