Philosophy Quote by MJ DeMarco

“Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world of appearances…

— Jay McInerney

“The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in…

— Isaiah Berlin

“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection…

— Tadeusz Borowski

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.”

— Gabor Maté

“The efforts to rise from darkness into light, from ignorance to knowledge, from prejudices to free thinking, make us real wise beings.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren

“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond…

— Aprilynne Pike

“The great truth was that we were not the center of things, or others’ lives, but only so in our own mind’s eye. We…

— Michael Collins

“A person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions…

— Marcel Proust

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see…

— Fernando Pessoa