Phaedrus Plato Quotes

#1. In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Lou Holtz

#3. I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

Bela Karolyi

#4. Grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.

David Nicholls

#5. Words are the great temptation.

Marty Rubin

#6. Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Gabriela Mistral

#7. People feel sorry for you if you sit down on a bench in the evening.

Emmanuel Bove

#8. To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

Plato

#9. It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.

Nikhil Advani

#10. You can't put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

Patricia Hampl

#11. I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

Phillip Lim

#12. But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

C.S. Lewis

#13. I do mean that wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong way.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

Richard M. Weaver

#15. The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

Plato