The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery..
Self conquest is the greatest of victories..
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty..
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themse….
The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by t….
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived….
So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word..
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t ….
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an in….
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something real….
I have good hope that there is something after death..
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis..
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil..
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality..
There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world….
For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Pe….
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think ….
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some ….
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous..
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die..
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for th….