“ The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. ”
- Libby Houston- Copy
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“ Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. ”
- Tom Morris- Copy
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“ Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
- 282
“ Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. ”
- Stanely G. Hall- Copy
- 294
“ Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. ”
- G. Stanley Hall- Copy
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“ Plato had slaves…George Washington had slaves… So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead! ”
- Todd Andrew Reid- Copy
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“ If you want to be important - that's wonderful. If you want to be great - that's wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's your new definition of greatness - it means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve… ”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked! ”
- Julianna Moore- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 180
“ While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 483
“ As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy… ”
- Gertrude Stein- Copy
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“ Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn… ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
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