Plato Quotes

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

No one can escape his destiny.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

The wisest have the most authority.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

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.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

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.