Plato Quotes
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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
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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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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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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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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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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
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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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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.
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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
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Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
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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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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
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The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
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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.
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Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.
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The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.