While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of tim….
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's bu….
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery….
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato..
And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaz….
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases..
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be ac….
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men..
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has p….
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences..
No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great….
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet….
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent..
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the….
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with h….
If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the natu….
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no s….
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help….
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and order….
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory..