Plato Quotes
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.
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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
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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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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
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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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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Music gives a soul to the universe.
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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
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Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.
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No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul.
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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.
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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
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Art has no end but its own perfection.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.