Plato Quotes
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I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.
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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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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
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A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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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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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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The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.
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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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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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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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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.
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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
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Love is a grave mental illness.
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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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Wine fills the heart with courage.
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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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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.
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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.