Plato Quotes
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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
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Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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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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Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world.
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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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To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
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Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
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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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Friends should have all things in common.
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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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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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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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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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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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.
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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.
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According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.