Plato Quotes
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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful.
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The good is the beautiful.
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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
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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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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.
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For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.
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God ever geometrizes.
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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.