Plato Quotes
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
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The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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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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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
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'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'
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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.