#plato

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. ↗

— Aristotle

#dearer #me #plato #still #truth

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life. ↗

— David Eddings

#cadre #experiences #gave #harrowing #here

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#cave #content #difference #emerged #images

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on! ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#barracks #before #even #graduated #had

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#art #concrete #individual #platonic

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#could #got #kind #kinds #leader