Plato Quotes
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It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.
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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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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.
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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
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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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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.
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All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.
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So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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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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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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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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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
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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.