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Vol. 1: Greece and Rome

Quote from Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

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Plato The Republic

Quote from Plato, The Republic

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

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Plato The Republic

Quote from Plato, The Republic

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

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Plato Theaetetus

Quote from Plato, Theaetetus

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Quote from Johann Baptist Metz, Memoria passionis: Ein provozierendes Gedächtnis in pluralistischer Gesellschaft

No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda – ‘mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom’ – u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja i mučenja, u kojoj se plakalo i tako rijetko ljubilo. I nikakav od povijesti udaljeni mit, nikakav Platonovi idejni Bog, nikakva gnostička soteriologija i nikakav apstraktni govor o povijesnosti naše egzistencije ne mogu nam vratiti onu nedužnost koju smo u toj povijesti izgubili.

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Plato

Quote from Plato, Phaedo

….I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.(tr Jowett)

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Plato

Quote from Plato, Phaedrus

Only a philosopher’s mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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Plato

Quote from Plato, Phaedrus

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

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