Plato Quotes
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
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Friends should have all things in common.
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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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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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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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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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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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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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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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.
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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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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
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Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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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.