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Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well. — Rebecca Goldstein

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong. — Dana Plato

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. — Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself. — Plato

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful. — Carl Jung

It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years. — Jostein Gaarder

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. — Benjamin Jowett

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke. — Dana Plato

we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it. — Bernard Bailyn

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year. — Plato

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. — Plato

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. — Plato

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. — Plato

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws. — Plato

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton

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

The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen — Dean Cavanagh

Man's greatest victory is over oneself. — Plato

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." — Pete Seeger

He's garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth. — Plato

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

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best. — Plato

It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools! — Digory Kirke

Again what city ever received Plato's or Aristotle's laws, or Socrates' precepts? But, — Erasmus

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit. — Plato

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. — Plato

On Plato's door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love's door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working. — Dana Plato

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

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me. — Raymond Moody

You wouldn't know him if I told you the name. HIPPIAS: But I know right now he's an ignoramus. — Plato

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers. — Plato

The field is the sole governing agency of the particle — Albert Einstein

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door. — Plato

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening. Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it. — Mary Renault

He talks like he's living in Plato's Republic, not Romulus's shit-hole. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful. — Plato

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. — 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

She's lived in Plato's cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she's been turned around to face the fire. — M.R. Carey

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need. — Elizabeth Kostova

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life. — Plato

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. — Huey Newton

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. — Plato

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art. — Plato

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men. — 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

T is by justice that we can authentically measure man's value or his nullity ... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man, — Plato

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs. — Plutarch

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

There is no such thing as a lover's oath. — Plato

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. — Libby Houston

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort. — Plato

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger. — Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. — Plato

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim. — Plato

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know. — Plato

Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian. — Jostein Gaarder

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any. — Plato

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. — Plato

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. — Plato

All is flux, nothing stays still — Plato

Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. — G.K. Chesterton

That not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued. — Plato

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. — Plato

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. — Plato

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. — Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. — Plato

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings — Plato

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again. — Plato

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn. — Plato

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own. — Plato

Now, in my opinion, the procession of the native inhabitants was fine; — Plato

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly. — Plato

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato

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

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye. — Benjamin Disraeli

We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~Plato~ — S.S. Segran

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed. — Karl Popper

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love. — Mary Renault

... it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just. — Plato

What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says Youth is most charming when the beard first appears? — Plato

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

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

Justice is having and doing what is one's own. — Plato

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows — Johnny Rich

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough. — Plato

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. — Plato

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee