Ambitious Quote by Thomas McEvilley

“In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze…

— Chris Hedges

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…

— Chuck Palahniuk

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves…

— Rebecca Goldstein

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…

— Elif Safak

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Let this variety of ideas be set before him; he will choose if he can; if not, he will remain in doubt. Only the…

— Michel de Montaigne

Socrates was tried in a religious court. He was condemned for disregarding Athens' gods. If you look at the way he speaks at his…

— Bettany Hughes

“According to Plato, Socrates said: "I have, since my childhood, been attended by a semi-divine being whose voice from time to time dissuades me…

— José Silva

“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth,…

— Allan Bloom

“Let the tutor make his charge pass everything through a sieve and lodge nothing in his head on mere authority and trust: let not…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in…

— Thomas McEvilley

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the…

— Thomas McEvilley