Plato Quotes

286 Plato quotes by 150 unique authors

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world… — Stephen Jay Gould
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was… — Julianne Moore
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis. — Francois Viete
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit… — Lawren Harris
I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and… — Napoleon Bonaparte
In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated… — Susan Neiman
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very… — George Bernard Shaw
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any… — Marcus Aurelius
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible… — Marcus Aurelius
I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion… — James Anthony Froude
The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory. — Alfred North Whitehead
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of… — George Steiner
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. — Galileo Galilei
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly… — Stephen Jay Gould
Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement,… — Paula Cole
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided… — Desiderius Erasmus
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. — B. C. Forbes
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. — Jack Kevorkian
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,… — C.S. Lewis
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual… — Bjorn Lomborg

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