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Quotes about Plato

Plato said most of us live in a dimly lit cave amid shadowy derivative reflections, but that it is possible to exit the cave and see what-is in clear light.

Huston Smith : Gaia Child
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Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead
Source: Process and Reality, page: 63
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Love, A grave mental illness

Plato : Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle
Plato (c.427 - 347 BC)
Source: Plato
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato : Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle
Plato (c.427 - 347 BC)
Source: thinkexist.com
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