Plato Quotes
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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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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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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
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οὐκ εἰσὶν οἱ παμπλούσιοι ἀγαθοί
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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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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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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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Only the dead will know the end of the war.
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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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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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ἐπ᾽ εὐτυχίᾳ τῇ μεγίστῃ παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία sc. ὁ ἔρως δίδοται
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Friends have all things in common.
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All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
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Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
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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.
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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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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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That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.