Plato Quotes
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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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It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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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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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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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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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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We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
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Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
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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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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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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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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
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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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Music gives a soul to the universe.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.