Plato Quotes

286 Plato quotes by 150 unique authors

We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call… — Naum Gabo
The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and… — Joseph Addison
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. — Benjamin Jowett
Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the… — Elif Safak
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble,… — James V. Schall
The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the… — Elaine Scarry
Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.” Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of… — Duane Elgin
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' — Clement of Alexandria
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all… — Iain Pears
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God. — Ernest Holmes
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind — Unknown Author
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that… — Francis Quarles
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and… — Huston Smith
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and… — John Milton
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. — Albert Claude
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me.… — Franz Liszt
Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. — Aristotle
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain… — Mark Kurlansky
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a… — Gertrude Stein
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's… — Pablo Picasso

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