31 Plato Quotes for You to Enjoy

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Isaac Newton

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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis

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

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? Desiderius Erasmus

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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. George Santayana

Thought Naught Plato

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it. Barbara Sukowa

Had Read Forgotten Kant Plato

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money. Dave Brat

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People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care. Dick Costolo

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'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them. Francoise Gilot

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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. Hannah Arendt

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Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. James Mark Baldwin

Truth God Goodness Idea Supreme Union Stands Plato

If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul. Jay Parini

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

Future Religion Dignified Philosophy Plato

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

Emotions Left Banned Land Radiant Base Plato

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate. Louis MacNeice

Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge. Mary Beard

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