Plato Quotes
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Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
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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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If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
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To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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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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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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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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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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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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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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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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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.
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There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
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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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Knowledge is true opinion.
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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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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
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Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.