Plato Quotes
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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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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
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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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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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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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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 beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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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.
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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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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
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Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
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God ever geometrizes.
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
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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.