Quotes by Plato He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato. Seneca the Younger plato mean son Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger. Seneca the Younger slave nephew plato Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. Seneca the Younger plato philosophy science You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory) Sherrilyn Kenyon rocks plato fun Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis. Sigmund Freud plato believe book Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. Stefano Benni being-in-love bowie plato 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 haughtiness plato people The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality. Stephen Jay Gould philosophical plato philosophy In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.) Susan Neiman enlightenment effort plato Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature. Susan Sontag plato self book The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things. Thomas B. Macaulay essence plato numbers In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. Thomas B. Macaulay plato philosophy science Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. Thomas McEvilley eye plato soul In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects. Thomas McEvilley plato soul personality Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition. Thomas McEvilley plato advice men To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. Thomas McEvilley plato soul special Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly. Thomas McEvilley states plato ifs It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in that case he seems naively over-impressed by rather ordinary thought processes. Thomas McEvilley intuition plato writing While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this? Thomas Jefferson plato philosophy science The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence. Thomas Jefferson plato christian order «1314151617181920212223»
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