Plato Quotes
286 Plato quotes by 150 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
— Benjamin Jowett
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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
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I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble,…
— James V. Schall
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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
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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
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And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
— Clement of Alexandria
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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
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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
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When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
— Albert Claude
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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...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
Who Wrote These Plato Quotes
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