Quotes About Plato

Come along," he said. "The games will start soon." Plato then led Jack and Annie out of the Greek house back onto the dirt road.

It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our individual lives. Personal and political are interdependent but not one and the same thing. The realm of imagination is a bridge between them, constantly refashioning one in terms of the other. Plato's

Plato, too, had emphasized a kind of dualism of shadow and reality, matter and spirit.

The Apology of Socrates was Plato's account of the legal defense that Socrates made at his trial in Athens. The speech itself is one of the great classics of ancient literature. They executed him anyway.

New Testament readers are frequently disappointed to find that the Christian Scriptures say little about the nature of the soul or its survival in an afterlife. Instead, church authorities base most of their teachings about the soul on Greek philosophy, particularly on the teachings of Socrates and Plato.

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Love is a grave mental illness.

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.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

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.

Ah, a literatura!... - exclamou. - Meu amigo, ler não é pensar a sós: ler é dialogar! Porém o diálogo da leitura é um diálogo platónico: o teu interlocutor constitui uma ideia. Contudo não se trata de uma ideia imutável: ao dialogares com ela, modifica-la, torna-la tua, chegas a acreditar na sua existência autónoma...

ya sabéis que el gran Platón dijo que las matemáticas tienen la finalidad de conducir al espíritu a la contemplación de las esencias inteligibles.

LISTEN SOCRATES, TO THE STORY; AS EXTRAORDINARY AS IT IS, IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE." Plato Timaeus 355 BC

The philosophy of Plato, which is the human preface of the Gospel [. . .]

Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience…

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

Of great interest is the metempsychosis of the Cabala. How this doctrine, already espoused by the Egyptians, Pythagoreans and Plato, came into Jewish mysticism, is not yet fully explained.

Toda la amargura de la existencia le parecía servida en su plato, y, con el humo del cocido, subían desde el fondo de su alma algo así como otras bocanadas del hastío

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

The time we take out, whether it is to do mathematics or music, or to read Plato or Jane Austen, is time to be cherished.

A Dialogue between two Infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's Den, and are but Embryon Philosophers.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

TREVES: Plato believed this was all a world of illusion and that artists made illusions of illusions of heaven. MERRICK: You mean we are all just copies? Of originals? TREVES: That's it. MERRICK: Who made the copies? TREVES: God. The Demi-urge. MERRICK (goes back to work): He should have used both hands shouldn't he?