Plato Quotes
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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.
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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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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
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Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
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Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.
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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.
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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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Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
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He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
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Μίμησιν μὲν γὰρ δὴ καὶ ἀπεικασίαν τὰ παρὰ πάντων ἡμῶν ῥηθέντα χρεών που γενέσθαι.
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.