Plato Quotes
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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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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
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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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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
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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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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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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
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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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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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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
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The beginning is half of the whole.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
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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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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.