Plato Quotes

286 Plato quotes by 150 unique authors

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? — Kurt Vonnegut
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the… — Werner Heisenberg
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and… — Douglas MacArthur
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas.… — James Joyce
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us… — Chuck Palahniuk
And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him… — Daniel Keyes
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that… — David Levithan
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to… — Virginia Woolf
God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a… — C.S. Lewis
Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these? — Niccolo Machiavelli
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that… — Demetri Martin
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and… — Rebecca Solnit
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. — Stefano Benni
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different… — Haruki Murakami
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So… — Will Durant
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of… — Louis L'Amour
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if… — Oscar Wilde
The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic. — Karl Popper
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands… — John F. Kennedy
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of… — Brendan Myers
Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history… — Dave Brat
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence,… — Philip Sidney
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. — George Santayana
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what… — Jane Grey

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