Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the profound influence of Plato's ideas on contemporary thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that Plato's philosophical concepts have laid the groundwork for countless discussions and writings that continue to engage thinkers today. He highlights the enduring relevance of Plato's work in shaping intellectual discourse and its impact on various fields of study.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a philosophy class to illustrate the impact of historical thinkers.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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