Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy
Frederick Charles CoplestonTag: philosophy plato
Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.
Stefano BenniHe who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.
PlatoI soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
SocratesHe could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse
PlatoNo civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
Robert McKeeTag: knowledge learning civilization destruction plato citizens
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PlatoTag: education children plato slow lovely-things
... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.
PlatoTag: soul light plato republic allegory-of-the-cave
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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