Plato Quotes
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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
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No one ever dies an atheist.
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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
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Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.
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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
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Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
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The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.
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The beginning is half of the whole.
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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
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And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.