plato Quotes and Quotations
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plato Quotes and Quotations
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. Hannah Arendt | top
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. Aristotle | top
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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 | top
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Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. James M. Baldwin | top
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I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon. Tom Berenger | top
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Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal. Tom Berenger | top
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. Albert Claude | top
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When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life. David Eddings | top
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? Desiderius Erasmus | top
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on! R. Lee Ermey | top
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The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career. Daniel J. Evans | top
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I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked. Gilbert Gottfried | top
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All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant. Jane Grey | top
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. G. Stanley Hall | top
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The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. Libby Houston | top
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I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato. Edgar Jepson | top
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We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it. Fritz Kreisler | top
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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 infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis | top
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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. Thomas B. Macaulay | top
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I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me. Kyle MacLachlan | top
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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. Roger Penrose | top
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. Abraham Robinson | top
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | top
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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. Michael Shermer | top
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead | top
