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Plato famously said, "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."Plato = ancient Athenian philosopher who did much to influence Western thinking (428-347 BC)
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A memory trick to remember the relationships between Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great is to put them in reverse alphabetical order: Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle, who taught Alexander the Great.
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He's substantially heavier than Adam Smith or Plato.† (source)
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It was the general who had given our cocker spaniel his name, Farsi for "Plato," because, he said, if you looked hard enough and long enough into the dog's filmy black eyes, you'd swear he was thinking wise thoughts.† (source)
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How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?† (source)
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Pagan Greeks did it-Plato called it theornania.† (source)
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Plato, Sophocles, Homer, Dryden, Coleridge, Shelley, Shaw.† (source)Plato = ancient Athenian philosopher who did much to influence Western thinking (428-347 BC)
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Now we are going to meet the three great classical philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.† (source)
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As pure and transcendent as any Idea which ever cast a shadow into Plato's dark cave of our perceptions.† (source)
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In the darkness of his mind, he found himself thinking about universal consciousness ....about Plato's writings on "the mind of the world" and "gathering God" ....Jung's "collective unconscious."† (source)
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soldiers back from the grave, and the many thousands who were later to die-villagers with terrible burns, little kids without arms or legs-yes, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were there, and a couple of popes, and a first lieutenant named Jimmy Cross, and the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War, and Jane Fonda dressed up as Barbarella, and an old man sprawled beside a pigpen, and my grandfather, and Gary Cooper, and a kind-faced woman carrying an umbrella and a copy of Plato's Republic, and a million ferocious citizens waving flags of all shapes and colors-people in hard hats, people in headbands-they were all whooping and chanting and urging me toward one shore or the other.† (source)
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At the far end of the spectrum, we might be reminded of Plato, who in the "Parable of the Cave" section of The Republic (fifth century B.C.) gives us an image of the cave as consciousness and perception.† (source)
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Plato said everything in the world is just the shadow of some real thing we can't see.† (source)
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Plato's dialogues, to be precise.† (source)
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Plato!† (source)
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It comes from Plato's Republic.† (source)
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