Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue..
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this….
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all.….
It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools!.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind..
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and educatio….
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land..
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see thing….
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth..
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropri….
Knowledge is true opinion..
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us tow….
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger..
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye..
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning..
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimed….
One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery….
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge..
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil..
The measure of a man is what he does with power..
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socr….