Plato Quotes

286 Plato quotes by 150 unique authors

Plato was a bore. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. — Michael Shermer
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel… — Dallas Willard
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world. — Julian Baggini
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie… — Tom Stoppard
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking… — Milan Kundera
The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even… — Immanuel Kant
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand… — C.S. Lewis
I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer. — Woody Allen
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And… — Ray Bradbury
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but… — Jostein Gaarder
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. — Tom Robbins
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat… — Blaise Pascal
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not… — William H. Gass
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon… — Francis Bacon
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater… — Bertrand Russell
There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need. — Elizabeth Kostova
The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to… — David Foster Wallace
And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and… — Wendy Mass
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives… — Koren Zailckas
You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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