Plato Quotes
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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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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You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Life must be lived as play.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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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.
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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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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.
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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
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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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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
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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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Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.
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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.