Plato Quotes
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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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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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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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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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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
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There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers.
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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.
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No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
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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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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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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
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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.
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Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.