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.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
God is truth and light his shadow.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
Integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors its teachers.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
