Plato Quotes
-
Man is a being in search of meaning.
-
But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?
-
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
-
That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.
-
Philosophy is the highest music.
-
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
-
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
-
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.
-
Excellent things are rare.
-
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
-
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
-
The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
-
All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
-
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
-
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
-
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
-
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
-
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
-
Friends have all things in common.
-
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
-
We become what we contemplate.
-
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
-
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.
-
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.