Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Running Quotes, Plato Quotes

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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I have good hope that there is something after death.

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I like people who like Plato.

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Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

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