Plato Quotes
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Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
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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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The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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You must base the Wisdom on Love.
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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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Socrates: The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, and other tools for cutting?
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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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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Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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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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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.