Forms Plato Quotes

#1. Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

N.D. Wilson

#2. One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Douglas Brinkley

#3. The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

Al D'Amato

#4. Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't ... Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

Philip K. Dick

#5. When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

Arthur Koestler

#6. Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.

Natalie Portman

#8. Mom, I remember Lizzie," Hart said. "She's really not my type." "She has a brother," Wes said, from his lounge. "He's not my type, either," Hart said.

John Scalzi

#9. That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

H.P. Lovecraft

#10. Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.

J. Oswald Sanders

#11. Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Ben Jonson

#12. For all this, man is embodied and trusting in his senses; he had sooner believe in a sensible improbability than in an insensible uncertainty, that is, sooner worship an idol than grapple with the philosophers.

Neel Burton

#13. Only sisters can understand having someone in their life that can berate and terrorize them with love.

Hunter J. Keane

#14. For he who would proceed aright ... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms ... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

Plato

#15. I see the same sky above me, the same stars and moon, but nothing will ever be the same for me, because I love you." Whoever said love was grand evidently had never been in love.

D.F. Jones

#16. I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

Werner Heisenberg

#17. Plato may have denied the existence of ideal forms in this world, but Plato never saw a Viking ship.
(Scientific American, February, 1998)

John Hale

#18. I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

Johnny Rich

#19. Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.

E. Stanley Jones