Plato Quotes
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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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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
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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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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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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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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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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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You can't do good if you don't feel good.
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The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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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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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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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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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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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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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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I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.