If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini..
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other..
The first and the best victory is to conquer self..
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated..
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appea….
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch..
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price..
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merel….
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side..
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers..
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visi….
Science is nothing but perception..
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the h….
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barba….
If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with God or hold ov….
Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as….
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought..
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we d….
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affectin….
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the prom….
When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one..