Quotes about Plato

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Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was goin — David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink! — J.K. Rowling
Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watso — Thomas Cathcart
Wise men speak because they have something to say — fools because they have to say something.
I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, t — Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. — Plato, The Republic
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being — Plato, Phaedrus
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory — to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
An over examination of life can deter you from life itself — Ilyas Kassam
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. — Marsilio Ficino
[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his ph — Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Val — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & — Deepak Chopra
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to gu — William Faulkner, Light in August
No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinja — Johann Baptist Metz, Memoria passionis: Ein provozierendes Gedächtnis in pluralistischer Gesellschaft
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks — Plato, Apology
[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see — Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we kno — Plato, Apology