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  1. Daniel Keyes _ Flowers for Algernon

    And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.
    book-quoteplato

  2. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.
    book-quotecivilizationknowledgeunderstanding

  3. Benjamin Jowett _ The Statesman

    's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays."
    book-quoteplato

  4. E.A. Bucchianeri _ Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

    Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
    book-quotephilosophicalfreedomwisdom

  5. Plato _ The Symposium

    Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
    book-quoteplatosymposium

  6. Plato _ Apology

    For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
    book-quoteplatofear-of-death

  7. Plato _ The Symposium

    And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.
    book-quoteplatosymposium

  8. Jessica Clare _ Stranded with a Billionaire

    Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."-Plato
    book-quoteloveplatosong

  9. Russell Brand _ My Booky Wook

    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.
    book-quoteplatoplatonicrussell-brand

  10. Plato _ The Symposium

    Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
    book-quoteplatosymposium

  11. Plato _ Apology

    I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have."
    book-quoteknowledgewisdomplato

  12. Plato _ The Republic

    The beginning is the most important part of the work.
    book-quoteplatorepublic
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