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8 quotesPlato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Truth
Aristotle
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
Nuclear Age
Libby Houston
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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Plato was a bore.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Friends and Friendship
Austin O'Malley
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Thoughts and Thinking
George Santayana
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Seneca
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun