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Plato Quotes - Page 23

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As the proverb says, a good beginning is half the business and to have begun well is praised by all.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

Half, Wells

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.118, Cosimo, Inc.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

Drinking, Wine, Lovers

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.1613, Catholic Way Publishing

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Evil, Noble, Return

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Mean, Argument, Walks

Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Torches

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Wise, Plato, Heaven

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.8095, Catholic Way Publishing

Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

Beautiful, Love Is, Men

Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.873, e-artnow

Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

Plato, Believe, Law

Plato, Harold North Fowler, Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, Robert Gregg Bury (1953). “Plato”

We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.

Real, Men, Political

Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Love Is, Names, Desire

Plato, C. D. C. Reeve “Plato on Love”, Hackett Publishing

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

Education, Children, Play

Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Persuasion, Knows, Seeking

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

Greatness, Opposites, Discipline

Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

Errors, Doe, Source

Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.2054, e-artnow

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

Learning, Thinking, Mind

Plato (2013). “Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theaetetus and the Sophist”, p.318, Courier Corporation

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

Eye, Soul, Body

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.11

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

Men, Errors, Views

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Practice, Notable, Ifs

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

Kings, Philosophy, Men

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.5914, Catholic Way Publishing

We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

Our World, Sight, Air

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

Reality, Mind, Vision

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, Evil, Our Words

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

Oysters, Shells, Body

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

Money, Children, Father

Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.

Real, Believe, Mean

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