Plato Quotes
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Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
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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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Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
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οὐκ εἰσὶν οἱ παμπλούσιοι ἀγαθοί
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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
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You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
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Only the dead will know the end of the war.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
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As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
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Aristotle was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato…. He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that Plato said, 'Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.'