Quotes by Plato The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books. Ralph Waldo Emerson genius plato book Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky. Ralph Waldo Emerson plato imagination sky Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud. Richard Holt Hutton cutting plato mistake Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit. Richard M. Weaver speech plato asking 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson stars plato heart You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions. Richard Rorty philosophical plato giving 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. Richard Rorty plato christian ideas Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God. Richard Rohr dust plato jesus Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson plato men philosophy We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Ralph Waldo Emerson aptitude plato may When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor. Ralph Waldo Emerson debtors plato ideas It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie. Robert Dabney plato education children Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato. Robert Henri plato teacher thinking No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. Robert McKee citizens plato civilization 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. Robert Nozick brooklyn plato years Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else? Robert Musil what-matters plato men I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'. Roger Penrose plato mind ideas The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience. Rollo May greek plato remember When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind Rumi blind plato firsts Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young. Sextus Empiricus earrings plato young «1314151617181920212223»
