To or to Plato the State is, above all, a large and powerful educative agency which gives the individual increased opportunities of self-development and greater capacities for the enjoyment of life.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
From Pythagoras (whether by way of Socrates or not) Plato derived the Orphic elements in his philosophy: the religious trend, the belief in immortality, the other-worldliness, the priestly tone, and all that is involved in the simile of the cave; also his respect for mathematics, and his intimate intermingling of intellect and mysticism.
mathematics / mysticism / philosophy / plato / Pythagoras
I wish to understand [Plato], but to treat him with as little reverence as if he were a contemporary English or American advocate of totalitarianism.
It has always been correct to praise Plato, but not to understand him.
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Plato possessed the art to dress up illiberal suggestions in such a way that they deceived future ages, which admired the republic without ever becoming aware of what was involved in its proposals.
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