Plato Quotes
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A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.
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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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Art has no end but its own perfection.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.
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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
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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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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.