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Plato
«If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics,
Study
| Keywords:
Plato, studies
«Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Aristotle, definite, Plato, teachings
«In the tenth grade, I was fascinated with the question 'what was immortality?' I read numerous philosophies, but the theory which has stayed with me was that of Plato, the Symposium. The idea that through Love and Beauty we achieve immortality. Putti»
Author: Jewel
(Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
fascinated, grade, numerous, philosophies, Plato, stayed, symposium, tenth
«A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Bach, go to sleep, infinitely, Plato, preparing, sleep in, standards, temperance, thankfulness
«I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
err, Plato, Pythagoreans, rightly
«In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by disc»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
argued, arrival, dialect, dialects, disc, Phaedrus, Plato, quest, quest for, reminiscence, reminiscences, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, suggested, The Arrival
«I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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Cicero, heavy-laden, lade, laded, laden, lading, Plato, sayings