Naught Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Naught Philosophy of Mind Thought
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“Remember your Plato, Maeve. ‘If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with the idea of things and… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? — Ada Cambridge Copy Share Image
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is… — James Beattie Copy Share Image
