(24 quotes found)
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“Plato was a bore.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
Saint Augustine
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
“How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato! Donald R”
Don Marquis
“Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.”
Tom Morris
“I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."”
“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
