Plato Quotes
-
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
-
Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
-
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
-
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
-
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
-
Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.
-
We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.
-
The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.
-
Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
-
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
-
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
-
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
-
I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
-
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
-
We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.
-
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
-
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
-
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.
-
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
-
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
-
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.
-
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
-
He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.
-
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.