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"i saw one in class whispering to her friend about the "significance" of an MC's confession mid-sex scene, quoting lines like "i'd die for her name" as if it were plato quoting socrates."
"Understanding Plato's theory of forms or how Hegel influenced Marx or how Bush's foreign policy contributed to the destabilization of the middle east is great and all, but you can't actually apply that knowledge towards any sort of lucrative career."
"I am also going to make him brute force his way through Plato and I'm considering roping him into my Duolingo Spanish journey"
"I don't sleep well, then I'm tired the whole day and wanna pass out around 4-5 PM, and then I get hit with a random burst of energy around 11 and I'm wired and looking up Plato's biography."
"i guess this phenomenon just makes me think back to formal education during the edwardian era lol, wherein rich aristocratic british boys would be sent to cambridge or oxford to study platonic dialogues and rousseau"
"Want to get more substantially into continental philosophy, particularly phenomenologists like Bergson and Husserl. I also want to know how European philosophers grappled with ways the industrial revolution shifted human consciousness as it was happening. Will I actually be able to find a linear thr"
"Plato 'birthed' Aristotle who 'birthed' Alexander the Great. But unlike the Alexandrian Order, that forced the East to see that the West had gained parity and forced the West to admit the administrative state of the East beat 'bands of fealty', Selena was cut too soon from the tapestry of history."
"I feel like Marx was truly a Plato or Einstein-level thinker, and he and Engels, and later Lenin have absolutely changed the way I see life from now on."
"So at some point she started asking me about my interests and shit and thats when the time came to drop 'oh a little bit of philosophy and literature'. And immediately she gives me the cuntiest smirk yet and says ''oh reeeeally'' (not exactly, it was in slovenian but same vibe) followed by 'like wha"
"When Plato in his Symposium waxes about male coupled soulmates, It's not just a philosophical dialogue about eros; it's a deeply spiritual meditation on love as a divine force that moves the soul closer to truth and beauty."
"makes you think about how much better plato's weird little chats with socrates must have been than his books"
"I get hit with a random burst of energy around 11 and I'm wired and looking up Plato's biography"
"Will I actually be able to find a linear thread from Plato and Aristotle to those late 19th century guys?"
"Plato "birthed" Aristotle who "birthed" Alexander the Great."
"Houellebecq's wife took her name from the famous Plato dialogue about a guy who is completely repulsed and disgusted by his lover"
"Plato remonstrated the students of his Academy "You who seek to know what she does must first seek the true question; how does she do it?""
"That dude was really into Plato, Nietzsche & Theosophy and wrote his own cosmological system which he tried to express through his music."