Plato Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plato, Koren Zailckas, Jonathan Swift, David Levithan, Marcus Aurelius and many others.
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar’s hand, and Plato’s brain, Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakespeare’s strain.
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician’s business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn’t want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn’t want to tell Lily that I felt we’d all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.
From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato’s Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.
You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It’s like aspirin. You can’t use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
My father was a dreamy fellow – he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.
