Quotes of: Plato Keyword

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

Plato I: Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.

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

Plato

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

Libby Houston

Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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.

Dave Brat

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.

Don Ameche

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Philip Sidney

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

Albert Claude

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

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

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

Llegué a acostumbrarme a matar para subsistir. Para mí era como lo que usted siente cuando, hambriento, ve un plato con cerdo asado sobre la mesa

Blaine

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

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

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

Plato I: Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.

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

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is ...

Paula Cole

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.

Stephen Jay Gould

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

Bjorn Lomborg

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.

Peter Ackroyd

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?

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Esmeralda: [on Plato's book at the same time she provokes the teacher over a past incident between them] I guess that's not a tramp's book, huh?

The Class