Plato Quotes

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

Truth is its own reward.

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.