Quotes About Phaedrus

#1. The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

Maggie Nelson

#2. 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

#3. And what is good, Phaedrus,
And what is not good
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Robert M. Pirsig

#4. There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

Anne Carson

#5. 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

#6. The stories of Harmonius and Aristogeiton, of Phaedrus of the Theban Band were well enough for those whose hearts were empty, but no substitute for life. That Clive should occasionally prefer them puzzled him.

E. M. Forster

#7. Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

Richard M. Weaver

#8. It's all right," Phaedrus said. "We just accidentally stumbled over a genuine question, and the shock is hard to recover from.

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind.

Paul Valery

#10. And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phaedrus said, is "insane." To

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. Am seeking perhaps what Socrates asked for in the prayer from the Phaedrus when he said, May the outward and inward man be at one.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#12. Ilauria on Phaedrus: His love was like the sun and the moon all wrapped in one.

Jasmine Angell

#13. I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

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#14. Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

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#15. Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

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#16. That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

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#17. An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

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#18. In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

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#19. The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

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#20. Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

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#21. Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

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#22. 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

#23. Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

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#24. The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

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#25. Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

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#26. The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

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#27. Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

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#28. Success tempts many to their ruin.

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#29. It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

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#30. Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

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#31. Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

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#32. The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

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#33. In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

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#34. Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

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#35. The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

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#36. A learned man has always riches in himself.

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