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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.
Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.
The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.