Plato Quotes
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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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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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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Love is a grave mental illness.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
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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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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
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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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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
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Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
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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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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.
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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.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.