Plato Quotes
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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Man was not made for himself alone.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
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The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
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In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.