Plato Quotes
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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Let brother help brother.
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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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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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
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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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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
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Art has no end but its own perfection.
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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
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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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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
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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.