Plato Quotes & Plato Sayings

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." Plato "Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life." Plato Sayings "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." Plato Remarks "Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself." Plato Popular Quotes A friend ought always to do good to a friend and never evil Plato Quotations A kiss, and touch of lips; not strange my Soul should cling - Strive to cross, weep to turn, and starve with me poor thing Plato A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. Plato Popular Quotes A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato Remarks All learning has an emotional base. Plato All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God Plato An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Plato And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs. Plato Popular Quotes Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. Plato Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another Plato Quotes At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato Quotes Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding Plato Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. Plato Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato Books are immortal sons deifying their sires Plato Quotes Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. Plato By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. Plato Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not Plato Sayings Courage is a kind of salvation. Plato Courage is knowing what not to fear. Plato Remarks Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. Plato Death is not the worst than can happen to men. Plato Democracy passes into despotism. Plato Adages Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike Plato Adages Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato Sayings Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato Even the gods love jokes Plato Popular Quotes Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato Remarks Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors Plato Adages Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. Plato False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power Plato Popular Quotes For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a Fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches. Plato Sayings For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation Plato Adages For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them Plato Remarks For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them. Plato Remarks For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperilling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. Plato Remarks Friends have all things in common. Plato Adages From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order. Plato Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. Plato Good people do not need laws to act responsibly, while bad people need laws to break them. Plato Remarks Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. Plato He was a wise man who invented beer. Plato Quotations 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. Plato He who not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul comes to the door and thinkshe will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted. Plato 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? Plato Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge Plato I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I don't THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are. Plato Quotes I have good hope that there is something after death. Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with Plato Remarks I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life Plato Quotations I wonder if we could contrive some magnificent myth that would in itself carry conviction to our whole community Plato Sayings If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. Plato Adages If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals Plato 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. Plato If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. Plato Adages Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Plato Sayings Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. Plato In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. Plato In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes. Plato Adages Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not? Plato Remarks It is only the dead who have seen the end of war Plato Justice is having and doing what is one's own. Plato Quotations Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Plato Sayings Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato Knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato Knowledge is true opinion. Plato Popular Quotes Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. Plato Sayings Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. Plato Quotations Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. Plato Leaders like wars because wars remind people they need leaders, Plato Quotations Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. Plato Sayings Life must be lived as play. Plato Love is a serious mental disease. Plato Quotations Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato Man - a being in search of meaning. Plato Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato Quotes Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. Plato Popular Quotes Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul Plato Adages Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. Plato Quotes Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato Adages Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato Adages Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? Plato Necessity, who is the mother of invention. Plato Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Plato No human thing is of serious importance Plato Adages No human thing is of serious importance. Plato Quotations No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. Plato Remarks No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. Plato No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. Plato Sayings 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. Plato Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. Plato O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better… In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven. Plato Remarks Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many. Plato Quotations One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. Plato Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. Plato Philosophy is the highest music. Plato Popular Quotes Pleasure is the bait of sin Plato Pleasure is the bait of sin. Plato Sayings Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. Plato Quotes Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. Plato Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato Science is nothing but perception. Plato Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. Plato The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. Plato The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy. Plato Popular Quotes The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life Plato The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. Plato Popular Quotes The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future. Plato The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine Plato The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile. Plato Popular Quotes The gods who have been appointed to be our companions in the dance, have given us the pleasurable sense of harmony and rhythm; and so they stir us to life, and we follow them, joining together in dances and songs. Plato The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. Plato The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. Plato Popular Quotes The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics Plato The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. Plato The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato Remarks The life that is unexamined is not worth living. Plato The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings. Plato Quotations The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. Plato Remarks The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato Quotes The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. Plato The music masters familiarizes children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole o Plato The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. Plato The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way Plato The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men Plato The popular notion is that there were financial considerations as to why he did what he did, and I'm not here to disabuse you of that, Plato Quotations The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato Quotes The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men Plato The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato Popular Quotes The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. Plato Sayings The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men Plato The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege of lying, whether at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the State. Plato The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. Plato Sayings The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention Plato Adages The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I me Plato Sayings The wise are doubtful. Plato Popular Quotes The wisest have the most authority Plato Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded Plato Sayings There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power. Plato There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. Plato There are three classes of men - lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain Plato There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato Remarks 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. Plato They are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time, which we unconsciously but wrongly transfer to the eternal essence; for we say that he "was," he "is," he "will be," but the truth is that "is" alone is properly attributed to him, and that "was" and "will be" only to be spoken of becoming in time, for they are motions, but that which is immovably the same cannot become older or younger by time, nor ever did or has become, or hereafter will be, older or younger, nor is subject at all to any of those states which affect moving and sensible things and of which generation is the cause. These are the forms of time, which imitates eternity and revolves according to a law of number. Moreover, when we say that what has become is become and what becomes is becoming, and that what will become is about to become and that the non-existent is non-existent-all these are inaccurate modes of expression... Plato Quotations They certainly give very strange names to diseases. Plato They deem him the worst enemy who tells them the truth Plato Quotes They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave Plato This I know - that I know nothing. Plato Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. Plato Time carries off all things; wouldst thou exchange - Name, looks, nature, luck? Just give time full range Plato Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, Fortune, name, and nature all decay Plato Quotes Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, Fortune, name, and nature all decay. Plato Quotations To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. Plato Quotes Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted Plato We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell Plato We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato Quotes Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent Plato Popular Quotes Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. Plato Quotes Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. Plato Quotes When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato Sayings When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. Plato Popular Quotes When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato Quotes When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Plato Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information / never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good / he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world. Plato Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences. Plato Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato Quotes You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato