183 Quotes About Plato

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

Science was completely wrong to jettison the ideas of Plato and Aristotle and will have to return to them if it is ever to formulate the Grand Unified Theory of Everything.

But if some of the pieces make you laugh, I will be happy, and if they persuade even one person to try reading Plato who otherwise wouldn't have done so then I will know I have not wasted my time.

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

An over examination of life can deter you from life itself

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy