Plato Quotes
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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
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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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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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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.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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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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Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
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Life should be lived as play.
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
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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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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
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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.
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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.