Plato Quotes
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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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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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Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
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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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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 more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
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The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
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All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
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God forever geometrizes.
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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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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.