Plato Quotes

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

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 is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

Plato was a bore.

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.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

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

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

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

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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?

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.