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Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.
— Rebecca Goldstein
I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.
— Dana 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
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
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
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
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
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
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
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
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
I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
— Huey Newton
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian.
— Jostein Gaarder
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
— Plato
All is flux, nothing stays still
— Plato
Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
— G.K. Chesterton
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
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
I stare out at the real world projected on the windows
— Johnny Rich
