Quotes about plato
plato serious importance
No human thing is of serious importance. Plato
plato opposites causes
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
plato perception
Science is nothing but perception.
plato pleasure-love evil
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
plato math divides
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
plato names giving
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
plato men deception
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
plato virtuous seeking
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
plato political style
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
plato authority wisest
The wisest have the most authority.
plato math amusing
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
plato math science
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
plato training important
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
plato democracy despotism
Democracy passes into despotism.
plato philosophy highest
Philosophy is the highest music.
plato men discipline
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
plato masters servant
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
plato greatest-wealth contentment
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
plato opinion
Knowledge is true opinion.
plato men deceived-us
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
plato conflict combat
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
plato want teach
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
plato men quality
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
plato philosophy becoming
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.
plato character men
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
plato lying men
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.
plato evil our-words
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
plato
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
plato real independent
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 rewards truth-is
Truth is its own reward.
plato knowledge geometry
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
plato evil aim
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
plato soul said
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.