Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Plato Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

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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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

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I like people who like Plato.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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