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Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another. Votes: 2

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs. Votes: 2

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye. Votes: 2

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride. Votes: 2

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence. Votes: 2

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato 's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes. Votes: 2

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms. Votes: 2

In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions. Votes: 2

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. Votes: 2

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood. Votes: 2

I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids. Votes: 2

When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. Votes: 2

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? Votes: 2

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible. Votes: 2

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, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.) Votes: 2

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, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion. Votes: 2

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes! Votes: 2

An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave. Votes: 2

Plato was a bore. Votes: 0

I like people who like Plato. Votes: 0

Plato's cave is full of freaks. Votes: 0

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful. Votes: 0

Plato was right, but not quite right. Votes: 0

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. Votes: 0

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness. Votes: 0

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young. Votes: 0

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well! Votes: 0

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly. Votes: 0

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. Votes: 0

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style. Votes: 0

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. Votes: 0

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. Votes: 0

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces. Votes: 0

All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. Votes: 0

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. Votes: 0

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Votes: 0

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed. Votes: 0

If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini. Votes: 0

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. Votes: 0

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. Votes: 0

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Votes: 0

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively. Votes: 0

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. Votes: 0

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. Votes: 0

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. Votes: 0

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Votes: 0

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Votes: 0

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. Votes: 0

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato. Votes: 0

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer. Votes: 0

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. Votes: 0

Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these? Votes: 0

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. Votes: 0

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young. Votes: 0

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. Votes: 0

My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy" Votes: 0

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher. Votes: 0

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. Votes: 0

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato. Votes: 0

Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. Votes: 0

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. Votes: 0

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated. Votes: 0

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. Votes: 0

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well. Votes: 0

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. Votes: 0

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people. Votes: 0

It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools! Votes: 0

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory. Votes: 0

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool. Votes: 0

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. Votes: 0

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Votes: 0

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. Votes: 0

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. Votes: 0

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' Votes: 0

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. Votes: 0

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force. Votes: 0

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. Votes: 0

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes. Votes: 0

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles. Votes: 0

Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces. Votes: 0

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me. Votes: 0

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind Votes: 0

You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory) Votes: 0

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Votes: 0

Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. Votes: 0

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Votes: 0

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. Votes: 0

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' Votes: 0

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato. Votes: 0

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither. Votes: 0

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. Votes: 0

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. Votes: 0

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. Votes: 0

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. Votes: 0

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll. Votes: 0

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. Votes: 0

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. Votes: 0

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. Votes: 0

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world. Votes: 0

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. Votes: 0

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.' Votes: 0

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West. Votes: 0

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle. Votes: 0

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor. Votes: 0

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced. Votes: 0

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis. Votes: 0

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. Votes: 0

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." Votes: 0

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience. Votes: 0

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... Votes: 0

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. Votes: 0

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? Votes: 0

The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God. Votes: 0

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian. Votes: 0

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily. Votes: 0

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 non-Platonic. Votes: 0

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. Votes: 0

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need. Votes: 0

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig. Votes: 0

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition. Votes: 0

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history. Votes: 0

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave Votes: 0

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger. Votes: 0

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. Votes: 0

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love. Votes: 0

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets. Votes: 0

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind. Votes: 0

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding? Votes: 0

I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth. Votes: 0

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger. Votes: 0

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it. Votes: 0

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean! Votes: 0

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation. Votes: 0

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking. Votes: 0

Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both. Votes: 0

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain. Votes: 0

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible Votes: 0

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. Votes: 0

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied. Votes: 0

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. Votes: 0

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control. Votes: 0

Trees are good for contemplation: Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a peepul tree. Votes: 0

Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution. Votes: 0

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world. Votes: 0

With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato. Votes: 0

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 idea to his categories. Votes: 0

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state. Votes: 0

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word. Votes: 0

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond. Votes: 0

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society. Votes: 0

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets. Votes: 0

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible. Votes: 0

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Here is Plato's man. Votes: 0

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 us of what we already know. Votes: 0

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money. Votes: 0

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting. Votes: 0

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos. Votes: 0

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. Votes: 0

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate. Votes: 0

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form. Votes: 0

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, the whole body wants to reproduce the person. Votes: 0

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury. Votes: 0

It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in that case he seems naively over-impressed by rather ordinary thought processes. Votes: 0

In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.' Votes: 0

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle. Votes: 0

Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook. Votes: 0

Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.” Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. Votes: 0

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are. Votes: 0

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion. Votes: 0

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell. Votes: 0

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. Votes: 0

Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor. Votes: 0

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40) Votes: 0

Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different. Votes: 0

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature. Votes: 0

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods. Votes: 0

I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it. Votes: 0

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE) Votes: 0

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. Votes: 0