Quotes by Plato A well begun is half ended. A. C. Benson half plato action As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced. Abigail Solomon-Godeau plato mean years Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort. Alain Badiou philosophical plato order Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. Albert Claude plato yesterday today If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts. Albert J. Nock strong plato character 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. Alfred Lord Tennyson plato men mean The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead philosophical plato knowledge The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory. Alfred North Whitehead plato christianity lying 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. Allan Bloom influence plato philosophy It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines. Allen Newell taught-us space plato 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. Amos Bronson Alcott building-houses plato ideas If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted. Anna Brackett reading plato book Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. Aristotle truth-is my-friends plato Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. Aristotle honesty plato truth It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.' Aristotle plato teaching giving 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. Arthur Koestler real plato ideas 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. Arthur Schopenhauer development plato writing He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. B. C. Forbes anger plato god 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. Benjamin Disraeli eye plato moving Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Benjamin Jowett plato bears play 1234567891011»
