Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
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.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
Plato was a bore.
I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.
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.
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
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