Plato Quotes
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Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
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That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.
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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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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.
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Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.
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Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
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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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No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
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Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.
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The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.
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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
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What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.
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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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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.
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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
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Love is a grave mental illness.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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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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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.
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Courage is knowing what to fear.
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One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.
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There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.
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I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.