Plato Quotes
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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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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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'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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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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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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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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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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Even the gods love jokes.
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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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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
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The good is the beautiful.