Plato Quotes
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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All knowledge is but remembrance.
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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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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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God ever geometrizes.
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The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.