Home / Quotes / Quote by Plato

Quote by Plato

“The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.”

Quote by Plato

Author

Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) was a prominent Greek philosopher, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy. He founded the Academy, which was the first institution of higher education in the Western world. Plato's philosophy, centered around the theory of Forms, emphasized the importance of reason and morality. more

You May Also Like

“The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.”

People Long Two Ends Whole Moments Havens Opposites Length Recognizing Embarrassment Corridors Ghastly

Book:The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be

Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be

“Space is really big-REALLY big.”

Author:Douglas Adams

“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.”

People Devices Transportation Bypass Finding Your Path

Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.”

Happens Time Order

Author:Douglas Adams

“One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.”

Trying Problem Hands Seeing Tools Cat Available Analysis Mechanism Susceptible Supposing Supposing That

Author:Douglas Adams

“I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.”

People Art Together Particular Listening Singing Tragedy Crowds Italian Opera Introducing Turkeys Chorus Athens

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.”

Life Lasts Conquer Fever

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.”

Truth Greater Written Amount Truth Is

Book:Essays and Reviews

Source: Essays and Reviews

“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.”

Men Giving Humans Soul Character My Soul Primaries Impulse Faculty Sentiments Primitive Human Heart Indivisible Black Cat Soul Life Perverseness

Book:The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius

“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.”

Source: The Portable Edgar Allan Poe