Plato Quotes
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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
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For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.