Plato Quotes
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
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I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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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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Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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All knowledge is but remembrance.
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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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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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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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Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.
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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
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... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.