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An over examination of life can deter you from life itself — Ilyas Kassam

Time is the moving image of eternity. — Plato

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them. — Plato

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein

For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives. — Plato

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. — Plato

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas. — Plato

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that. — Plato

As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I am a boy again. — Thornton Wilder

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. — Plato

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams. — Plato

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. — Werner Heisenberg

My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy — R. Alan Woods

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Philosophy did not find Plato already a nobleman ; it made him one. — Seneca.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love. — Plato

All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies? — Plato

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy — Frederick Charles Copleston

Plato was a bore. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato's cave is full of freaks. — Jack Johnson

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it. — Plato

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

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher. — Plato

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly. — Plato

Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die. — Jhumpa Lahiri

God is a geometrician. — Plato

The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle. — Jo Walton

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. — Seneca The Younger

Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business — Martin Cohen

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death. — Plato

Ideas are the source of all things — Plato

There are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone. — Plato

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. — Plato

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder. — Plato

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them. — Plato

Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen. — Ursula Tillmann

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. — Plato

[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men. — Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. — Plato

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein

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

Philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato — Plato

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another. — Mason Cooley

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy. — Plato

Philosophy is the highest music. — Plato

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning — Plato

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures. — Debasish Mridha

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. — Plato

For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself. — Plato

Philosophy is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Raheel Farooq

It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter. — Jostein Gaarder

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads? — Plato

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true. — Plato

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. — Plato

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him. — Plato

For the object of education is to teach us to love beauty. — Plato

When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same. — Plato

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. — Plato

Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who are
of a certain nature; he who is not, not. — Plato