Plato Quotes
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.
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Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth.
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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
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The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
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The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
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But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.