The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato a….
Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel ….
Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces..
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal..
Philosophy is the highest music..
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction..
Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His….
Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles o….
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another do….
God is not the author of all things, but of good only..
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook..
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games..
Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs..
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to….
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy..
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power..
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of ….
To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatic….
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expe….
Truth is its own reward..
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's no….