Concern Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the…

— Rebecca Goldstein

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a…

— Joseph Addison

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

— John Milton

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful,…

— Elaine Scarry

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,…

— Susan Neiman

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,…

— Arthur Koestler

It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that…

— Allen Newell

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

— John Dewey