Quotes of: Plato Keyword

One of see. S. Louis's endeavors as a teacher was to persuade young people that first-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring then second-hand knowledge, but it is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire. And so, Lewis wrote, a stu...

C.S. Lewis

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

James Mark Baldwin

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

Galileo Galilei

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

Plato: What does he know about man alone?

Rebel Without a Cause

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, of the potential knowers...of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few...

The Closing of the American Mind

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

Raymond Moody

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

Rebecca Goldstein

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

Jack Kevorkian

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.

Jane Grey

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.

Dmitri Mendeleev

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

G. Stanley Hall

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

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

Patti Smith

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

Julian Baggini

Plato: If only you coulda been my dad. We could have breakfast in the morning.

Rebel Without a Cause

But it will be asked: What is the force and power of the blessings and curses of men, even if these men be such giants as Plato and Aristotle? Does truth become more true because Aristotle blesses it, or does it become error because Plato curses it? ...

Athens and Jerusalem

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." -Plato

Stranded with a Billionaire