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" Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 39
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education, Volume 52

1893 - 852 pages
...nations ; these are the corner-stone of schools ; these are the fountain-head of literature. . . . Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought." Men of the highest ability have devoted years of loving toil to the translation of the great masterpieces...
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Introduction to American Literature: Including Illustrative Selections, with ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...thinkers of the past have exhausted the field of speculative philosophy. "Out of Plato," says Emerson, "come all things that are still written and debated...thought. Great havoc makes he among our originalities." Only small advances can be made now and then, even by the children of genius. Emerson had a deep affinity...
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Norway. Switzerland. Athens. Venice

John Lawson Stoddard - 1897 - 356 pages
...their keen intellects in making their translations. Is it philosophy? "Out of Plato," says Emerson, "come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought." The lesson, then, which Athens teaches us is this : not to regard past men, past deeds, and ruined...
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John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Ireland. Denmark. Sweden

John Lawson Stoddard - 1897 - 346 pages
...their keen intellects in making their translations. Is it philosophy? "Out of Plato," says Emerson, "come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought." The lesson, then, which Athens teaches us is this : not to regard past men, past deeds, and ruined...
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Norway. Switzerland. Athens. Venice

John Lawson Stoddard - 1904 - 346 pages
...their keen intellects in making their translations. Is it philosophy? "Out of Plato," says Emerson, "come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought." The lesson, then, which Athens teaches us is this: not to regard past men, past deeds, and ruined shrines...
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John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Norway. Switzerland. Athens. Venice

John Lawson Stoddard - 1897 - 348 pages
...their keen intellects in making their translations. Is it philosophy? "Out of Plato," says Emerson, "come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought." The lesson, then, which Athens teaches us is this: not to regard past men, past deeds, and ruined shrines...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 4

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 438 pages
...noblest body of philosophical thought in existence, and of matchless literary beauty. Emerson says, " Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought. . . . Plato is philosophy, and philosophy Plato."] Socrates, on the eve of his trial for impiety, wisher...
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The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature, with ..., Volume 4

Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...noblest body of philosophical thought in existence, and of matchless literary beauty. Emerson says, " Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought. . . . Plato is philosophy, and philosophy Plato."] I. Socrates, on the eve of his trial for impiety,...
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The Flowers of Lyle and Elegiac Verses

Ida L. White - 1901 - 232 pages
...inferred from the frequent mention of his name " ; and certainly Emerson's sweeping statement, that " Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought," needs not a little qualification. Yet, when every allowance has been made, the statement which I made...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 500 pages
...culture of nations; these are the corner-stone of schools; these are the fountain head of literatures. A discipline it is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry,...never such range of speculation. Out of Plato come ~j ( /all things that are still written and debated among-- I men pf thought. Great havoc makes he...
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