 | Agnes Forbes Savill - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 332 pages
...even though the wave break and drown me in laughter and dishonour; and do you mark my words. . . . Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...one must have lived for it and been long prepared. Only a philosopher-king is fit to guide a nation. "Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and wisdom and political leadership meet in the same man, . . . cities will never cease from ill, nor the... | |
 | Edward LeRoy Long Jr. - Religion - 1992 - 250 pages
...expression to such a conviction in a memorable passage in the fifth book of The Republic, when he wrote: Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest... | |
 | Stanley Aronowitz - History - 1993 - 302 pages
...embarrassed by his own reference, Lippmann turns to Plato's words in book V of The Republic as his epigraph: "Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one . . . cities will never cease from ill — no, nor the human race."17 For Lippmann, Socrates' decision... | |
 | Teresa Whitfield - History - 1994 - 536 pages
...things to do with his time.6 Ellacurfa was fond of quoting Plato's observation in The Republic that "until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...this world have the spirit and power of philosophy . . . cities will never have rest from their evils — no, nor the human race."7 But it was in the... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - Psychology - 1995 - 390 pages
...the Republic becomes a manifesto of the discontented and disaffected who will give up on this world, [u]ntil philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside. (Republic, Book V, 473) To... | |
 | Nick Ligidakis - Cooking - 1997 - 356 pages
...I am happy that I had used both courage and wisdom to make my decision. story continued on page 261 Until philosophers are kings or the kings and princes...wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other compelled to stand aside, cities and human race will never... | |
 | Thomas D. Lynch - Political Science - 1997 - 506 pages
...High Nineteenth Century Conservative Low Low Low Twentieth Century Conservative Part I Premodern PLATO Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never rest from... | |
 | Alfred H. Knight - Law - 1998 - 294 pages
...glad to give the more burdensome portions of it back. More than two thousand years ago, Plato wrote: "Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one . . . cities will never have rest from their evils — no, nor the human race, as I believe — and... | |
 | Nicholas D. Smith - Philosophy - 1998 - 370 pages
...heart and soul of the earlier doctrine. The central thesis of the Republic is the rule of philosophy. "Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes...this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, cities will never have rest from their evils" (473d). Zeller maintained that this doctrine is not found... | |
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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand... 
