183 Quotes About Plato
- Author Virginia Woolf
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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life…
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- Author William Butler Yeats
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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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- Author Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
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