Plato S Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato
All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's… — Jean Baudrillard
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made… — Roger Penrose
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
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
The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Platoâ€™s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the… — Elaine Scarry
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius
We may like well to know what is Platoâ€™s and what is Montesquieuâ€™s or Goetheâ€™s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. — Thomas B. Macaulay
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it… — Thomas Jefferson
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that… — Dick Costolo
Plato's cave is full of freaks. — Jack Johnson
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.… — Susan Sontag
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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

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