Plato's Republic Quotes

• Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Plato, Reality, People

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• I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

  Ray Bradbury

  Plato, Book, Evil

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• Mientras vadeaba los caprichos, las puerilidades y la jerga ininteligible de esta obra [Plato's Republic], me preguntaba a menudo cómo es posible que el mundo haya consentido durante tanto tiempo en dar reputación a semejante disparate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Plato, Philosophy, Science

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). "Memorias, correspondencia y documentos privados de Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States", p.248

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• Haz lo que la naturaleza exige ahora. Ponte en movimiento, si está en tu mano, y no mires a tu alrededor para ver si alguien lo observa; ni esperes aún la República de Plato: sino conténtate con que la cosa más pequeña vaya bien, y considera que tal acontecimiento no es poca cosa.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Events, Looks

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.66, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.

  Robert Nozick

  Plato, Years, Brooklyn

  "The Examined Life". Book by Robert Nozick, 1989.

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• That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Should Have, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.436, Routledge

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• In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Plato, Ideas, Republic

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