Quotes About Plato

Sin duda cada ser tiene, en el universo de lo escrito, una obra que le convertirá en lector, suponiendo que el destino favorezca su encuentro. Lo que Platón dice de la mitad amorosa, ese otro ser que circula por alguna parte y que conviene encontrar a riesgo de permanecer incompleto hasta el día de tu muerte, es todavía más auténtico en el caso de los libros.

We are starting a sanctuary, a community that will have justice, wisdom, moderation and courage…" "It's from Plato," said Pa. "From The Republic ." "I see," said Hennie, in a tone that revealed he had no idea what Pa was talking about.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

So when someone assents to a false proposition, be sure that they did not want to give their assent, since, as Plato says, 'Every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.'47 [5] They simply mistook for true something false.

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.

Plato described in great detail a plan for government in which philosophers would take turns ruling the less able people of the country. As you may remember, Plato and his friends were philosophers.

If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

[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 beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Right down to the seventeenth century, Christian debate about faith and the world involved a debate between two Greek ghosts, Plato and Aristotle, who had never heard the name of Jesus Christ.

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato's man." On which account this addition was made to the definition: "With broad flat nails."

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

The words of Plato in the third book of the Republic are as follows: " Truth, said Socrates, is to be specially cultivated.

Ontological priority is normatively neutral, Plato to the contrary notwithstanding.