Attainment Quote by Thomas McEvilley

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

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.”

— Michael Greenberg

“Food can’t really be a friend or a source of comfort to us—we can’t expect it to fill the role that God designed for…

— Jessica Heights

“food should not only satisfy hunger, it should feed the soul, nourish the body and delight the senses.”

— Karista Bennett

“The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

— Anonymous

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“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

“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited, and slothful,…

— C.S. Lewis

“We eat to fulfil the needs of the body, but we overeat to fulfil the needs of the mind.”

— Toby Edge