Ifs Quote by Thomas McEvilley Download Open image “Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.” — Thomas McEvilley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Plato States
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be… — Bertrand Russell 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
“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
I told my wife once, 'I feel like I'm getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.' Some people are like, 'You're comparing… — W. Earl Brown Copy Share Image
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.” — Robin Waterfield Copy Share Image
It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers and others… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential critics today… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
“There Pericles says that the essence of the Athenian democracy is that any citizen, regardless of class or profession, should be able to take… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
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