Plato Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Imagination, Remembrance, Earth

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory - it may only be about some small matter, or it may be about the universe. I think that most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been a result of just such a moment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Men, Advice, Sound

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• The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

  Plato

  Spring, Hero, Greatness

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Ideas, World

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• Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

  Plato

  Math, Kind, Arithmetic

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.25, University Press of America

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• Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

  Plato

  Natural Talent, Training, Dull

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• The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, "Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Smart, Thinking

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• You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world.

  Charles Williams

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Angel

  Charles Williams (2016). “The Place of the Lion”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Greek, Bernard Shaw, Made

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• That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

  Bertrand Russell

  Should Have, People, Political

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.436, Routledge

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• Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Sacrifice, Grace

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• Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Wealth, Well Known

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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• I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex perverts.' The last two categories here are very vague . . . The law of Idaho would have justified the sterilization of Socrates, Plato, Julius Caesar, and St. Paul.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Law, Two

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.102, Routledge

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• Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

  Bertrand Russell

  Long, Greek, Slavery

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.56, Routledge

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• Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  What If, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

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• This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Mean, Wounds And Scars

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Blood

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• What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

  James Joyce

  Art, Spring, Ideas

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.188, First Avenue Editions

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• According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Teacher, Soul, Knows

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

  Daniel Keyes

  Eye, Men, Flames

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  David Levithan

  Ideas, Soul, Lilies

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Rocks, Two

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.193, Macmillan

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• Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Soul, Body, Immortal

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