Plato Quotes - Page 5

• For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

  Plato

  Men, Dwelling, Coward

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.

  Jacques Derrida

  Philosophical, Mean, Redemption

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

  Plato

  War, Government, Political Will

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• Science is nothing but perception.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Science, Technology

  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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• The wisest have the most authority.

  Plato

  Christian, Wise, Philosophical

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• Knowledge is true opinion.

  Plato

  Opinion

  Plato (2015). “Theaetetus: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.27, 谷月社

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• Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

  Plato

  Kings, Philosophy, Believe

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.206, First Avenue Editions

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• The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

  Karl Popper

  Hard Work, Science, Might

  Karl Popper (2014). “After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings”, p.190, Routledge

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• Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.

  Tom Stoppard

  Past, Mirrors, Creation

  Tom Stoppard (1998). “The Invention of Love”, p.95, Grove Press

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• I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Thinking, Ideas, Ordinary

  Werner Heisenberg (1970). “Natural law and the structure of matter”

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• But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.

  George Herbert

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

  Aristotle

  Truth, Honesty, Philosophical

  Greek original ascribed to Aristotle

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• Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Song, Struggle, Soul

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• Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fun, Soul, Desire

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• Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ambition, Carpe Diem, Dust

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• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Envy, Style, Rage

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• Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

  Karl Popper

  Political, Program, Reconstruction

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• With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.

  Karl Popper

  Political, Enemy, Principles

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• Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

  Koren Zailckas

  Circles, Bottles, Half

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.121, Penguin

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• 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

  Needs, Problem, Persons

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• To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Soul, Special, Desire

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• There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Two, Forever, Males

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.378, Macmillan

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

  Digory Kirke

  School, Bless, Teach

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