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On thinking and conversation by Plato

   




AuthorPlato  (428 BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher
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CategoriesConversation; Dialogue; Thinking
LocationGreece
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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

Plato  (428 BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher


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 Dialogue is life.

Plato , (428 BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher



 You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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 Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

Plato , (428 BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher
Sophist 




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