PlatoBooks are immortal sons deifying their sires.371DeathReading
PlatoHe whom Love touches not walks in darkness. ✨ Plato (2012). Symposium and Phaedrus, p.29, Courier Corporation371Love
PlatoBy education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice… ▶371Love
PlatoAtheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding. ✨ Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Trea… ▶372PhilosophyThought
PlatoWhat is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.361PhilosophyThoughtTruth
PlatoWhen the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of… ▶372ThoughtTruth
PlatoMusic and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul ✨ Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Tho… ▶362PhilosophyThought
PlatoWhen the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war351Life
PlatoThe 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 bes… ▶373PoliticsThought
PlatoNo human thing is of serious importance. ✨ Plato (2016). The Republic, p.489, Xist Publishing362Humanity
PlatoNo one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.362Truth
PlatoBetter to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune. ✨ Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Tr… ▶362PhilosophyThought
PlatoBecause, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of … ▶362PhilosophyPoliticsTime
PlatoThe first and the best victory is to conquer self.352Sadness
PlatoI will prove by my life that my critics are liars.374Life
PlatoThe good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.374Reflection
PlatoTo begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.341Reading
PlatoLet every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind. ✨ Plato (2016). The Compl… ▶352DeathPoliticsThought
PlatoA certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods. ✨ Plato (2008). Laws, p.285, Cosimo, Inc.352HumanityLifePolitics
PlatoFor it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.352Thought
PlatoThe excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.341Love
PlatoIs it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For… ▶341DeathReflectionTruth
PlatoI have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ✨ Plato (2016). The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known f… ▶363Politics
PlatoNever discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!374Hope
PlatoThat politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteeme… ▶352PoliticsTime
PlatoTruth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man. ✨ Plato (1871). The Dialogues of Plato, p.249341Truth
PlatoFor this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. ✨ Plato, Robert Gregg Bury (1921). Plato352Philosophy
PlatoWe ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing. ✨ Plato (2008). Laws, p.161, Cosimo, Inc.364Politics
PlatoThe good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.375Life
PlatoThe true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one mak… ▶342LifeTruth
