Plato

Plato told us Socrates wanted to boot the poets and storytellers from the city because they dared to boast that wicked men could be happy.

Soon after, Athens became the western world’s center of philosophical inquiry, as the triumvirate of Socrates, Plato and then Aristotle established philosophy as an essential component of civilized intellectual discourse.

Americans often get a distorted view of politics they don’t share, which she likens to the misleading shadows cast by the burning fire in Plato’s allegory of the cave.

SUSY particles have long been one of the most popular proposals for the identity of this cosmic dark matter, based on more complicated notions of symmetry than those available to Plato and Aristotle.

Plato, on theoretical rather than observational grounds, had already insisted that circularity’s symmetry signified perfection, and therefore circular motion should be required in the heavens.

Football “is what Plato calls a pharmakon, a poison and an elixir,” he writes.

Plato argued that true learning must be more than what Deresiewicz calls “highbrow entertainment for the moneyed class.”

The idea that education should profoundly influence how you live is at least as old as Plato.

Back to the concerto, or a little light Plato, or some such.

However, Plato and Aristotle each called for the exposure of feeble infants.

In Greek especially she was proficient, and Plato was to her more interesting than any story book.

Plato, dissatisfied with the laws of his country, wrote out a code of morals and laws which he thought much better.

The earlier fathers of the church, the greater part of whom were Platonists, imitated this method of Plato's.

The progress of philosophy from Thales to Plato is the most stupendous triumph of the human intellect.

Plato made philosophy to consist in the discussion of general terms, or abstract ideas.