Plato Quotes
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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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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It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.
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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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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
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We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
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And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.