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David Gale: [while drunk] Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, and, um, and Aristotle was a prissy dresser!

The Life of David Gale

Plato: Do you think the end of the world will come at nighttime? Jim Stark: Uh-uh, at dawn.

Rebel Without a Cause

Jim Stark: I'll bet you'd go to a hanging. Plato: I guess it's just my morbid personality.

Rebel Without a Cause

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavio...

Eric Kandel

In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze is confined to the cave wall, upon which shadows of the world are thrown. They believe these flicker...

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

A History of Philosophy 1: Greece and Rome

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.

How the Mind Works

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, muc...

This is a Book

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

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

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.

Saint Augustine

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philo...

Dallas Willard

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.

Hannah Arendt

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

Dick Costolo

Buzz Gunderson: You ever been in a chickie-run? Jim Stark: Yeah, that's all I ever do. [Buzz leaves] Jim Stark: Plato, what's a chickie-run?

Rebel Without a Cause

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

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

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.

The Swan Thieves

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

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

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?

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

One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.

Picture This

THESE ARE THE REASONS, THEN, FOR WHICH A MAN CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS SOUL – AS LONG AS IN LIFE HE HAS…DEVOTED HIMSELF TO THE PLEASURES OF AQUIRING KNOWLEDGE …WITH SELF CONTROL, AND GOODNESS, AND COURAGE, AND LIBERALITY, AND TRUTH...

Dean Chavooshian