Plato Quotes

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Wife, Humility

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle

Truth, Dear, Dearer

Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Saint Augustine

Beautiful, Wise, Read

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei

Advice, Start, Again

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
George Santayana

Thought, Naught, Footnote

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus

Real, Between, Difference

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Future, Philosophy

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead

General, Series, Tradition

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
Hannah Arendt

End, Political, Thought

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.
Paula Cole

Health, Self, Thinking

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

History, May, Brilliant

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian

Death, Seem, Admit

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
Bjorn Lomborg

Great, Thought, Wanted

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
Michael Shermer

Fact, Historical, Literary

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Life, Nature, Live

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
Albert Claude

Today, Tomorrow, Once

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
James M. Baldwin

God, Truth, Idea

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall

Love, Sex, Down

All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Jane Grey

Good, True, Find

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
Libby Houston

Emotions, Left, Land

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.
Edgar Jepson

Love, Nothing, Found

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