Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Plato Quotes

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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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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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

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

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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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Science is nothing but perception.

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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

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Love is a serious mental disease.

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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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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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

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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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A well begun is half ended.

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