Plato Quotes
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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
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When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
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If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
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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.
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Geometry existed before creation.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
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The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.
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Truth is its own reward.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities … since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
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Everything changes and nothing remains still.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
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Beauty is a natural superiority.