Plato Quotes
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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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.
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God forever geometrizes.
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
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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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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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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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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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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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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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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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There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
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The prisoner grows to love his chains.
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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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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.