Plato Quotes
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.
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Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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Better a good enemy than a bad friend.
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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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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
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Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
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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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The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.
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The good is the beautiful.
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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.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.