Essence Quote by Paul Tillich

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

“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

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Plato believed the soul was divided into three parts: reason, spirit, and appetite. Reason seeks truth and wants the best for the whole person.…

— David Brooks

Every soul and spirit has some degree of continuity with the universal spirit, which is recognized to be located not only where the individual…

— Giordano Bruno

“Plato had one Big Idea from which everything else derived. He fundamentally defined reality as that which is permanent and unchanging. Only ideas are…

— Norman F. Cantor

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Man studies simultaneously in three schools. The body is tutored on earth. All the cells of the body perform a particular service, and at…

— Beinsa Douno