Plato Quotes
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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
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We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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God ever geometrizes.
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
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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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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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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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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
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Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.