(24 quotes found)
“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.”
Gilbert Ryle
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
Plato
“Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all claimed that they knew nothing and so I guess I know even less.”
George Otero
“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
Aristotle
“It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.”
Jennifer Frederick
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
“It was modesty which in Greece invented the word "philosopher" and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit --the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
