Quotes About Plato

Plato wrote in The Republic during the fourth century BC, "Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Plato advocated discipline and perfectionism, the effort to produce quality in small quantity rather than a vast range of what is second-rate.

Plato had one Big Idea from which everything else derived. He fundamentally defined reality as that which is permanent and unchanging. Only ideas are permanent and unchanging; anything material deteriorates and decays.

If the philosophy of the Middle Ages is based on the logic of Aristotle, their science can be traced rather to the Greek thought of pre-Aristotelian times. For authority it relied very largely on a single dialogue of Plato, to which may be added Latin translations of a small part of Hippocrates, and of his post-Christian successor and interpreter, Galen.

I live in what's left of the evidence not out there in the rotting garden the firebombed street and Plato's myth of lovers the fates meeting of equal halves is a tale for lonely kids

To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence that their main subjects were biology and mathematics. A purpose behind them, the purpose that steered both them and the school, had caused them to align their own fates as closely as possible with God.