Plato Quotes
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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
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Life must be lived as play.
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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
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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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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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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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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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Life should be lived as play.
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'
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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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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
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Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
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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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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
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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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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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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.