![While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?](/assets/img/quote-photos/while-wading-through-the-whimsies-the-puerilities-and-unintelligible-jargon-of.jpg)
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plato atheism age
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets. Denis Diderot
plato years ideas
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. Ludwig von Mises
plato kind members
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.
plato people leader
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care. Dick Costolo
plato father thinking
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t. Bill Maher
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
plato history secret
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.
plato play bears
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Benjamin Jowett
plato book greatness
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. C. S. Lewis
philosophy progressive-taxation class
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
philosophy finals causes
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. Charles Peguy
philosophy great-philosophy reproach
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
philosophy passion doe
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
philosophy science firsts
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
philosophy firsts steps
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
philosophy fanaticism
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
philosophy firsts steps
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
philosophy teaching class
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right. Dean Wareham
science
I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. Richard P. Feynman
science
Let us advance science to create a better world for all. Dan Shechtman
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LWS is kind of science with an edge. Barbara Thompson
science suing
Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county. Carol Licko
science feelings research
Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.
science thinking scientist
Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.
science differences three
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. Democritus
science virtue all-things
All things happen by virtue of necessity.
science fruit chance
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.