Plato
Quotes
One of the most influential philosophers in history, he founded the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. His dialogues, featuring his mentor Socrates, explore profound questions about justice, virtue, the soul, and the nature of reality. He proposed the theory of ideal forms, influencing philosophical thought on metaphysics, ethics, and political theory for millennia.
Plato
Quotes
One of the most influential philosophers in history, he founded the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. His dialogues, featuring his mentor Socrates, explore profound questions about justice, virtue, the soul, and the nature of reality. He proposed the theory of ideal forms, influencing philosophical thought on metaphysics, ethics, and political theory for millennia.
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
You should not honor men more than truth.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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?
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, too effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
