Plato Quotes
-
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.
-
We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.
-
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.
-
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
-
As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
-
Man was not made for himself alone.
-
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
-
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
-
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.
-
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.
-
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
-
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.
-
Philosophy begins in wonder.
-
[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
-
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
-
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
-
And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
-
Even the gods love jokes.
-
As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
-
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
-
The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
-
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.
-
God is truth and light his shadow.
-
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.