Plato Quotes
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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
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SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?
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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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Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
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How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
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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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Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.