Plato Quotes
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The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.
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Life should be lived as play.
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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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Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
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Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
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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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Socrates: The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.Phaedrus: Clearly.Socrates: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
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An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
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To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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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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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.
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We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
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What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
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It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.