Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?.
The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin..
The greatest wealth is to live content with little..
Let nobody speak mischief of anybody..
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage….
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly..
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty..
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?.
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argument….
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding….
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and chara….
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here..
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays..
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power….
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessi….
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do….
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like….
So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality ….
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories..
[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato….
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of w….