I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all..
Great courage will be required to choose the right..
I took a lot from friends, but also me..
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 tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles..
When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it..
I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two mee….
When you have something to do life will not allow you to ove foward until you do it..
I'm always looking for good music..
That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau….
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattracti….
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement….
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from ….
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth..
A well begun is half ended..
In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P.….
Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with P….
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato..
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enligh….
God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved ….