Plato Quotes
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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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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.
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
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When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.
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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
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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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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.
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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
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You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.
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When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.
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Man - a being in search of meaning.
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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.