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Plato Quotes - Page 29

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The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Beauty, Beautiful, Art

Plato (1925). “Plato”, Loeb Classical Library

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Character, Men, Evil

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”

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

Love, Freedom, Inspire

Wise men speak because they have something to say

Wise, Communication, Men

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

Men, Knowing, Society

Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.388

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Suffering, Injustice

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

Education, Mind, May

Plato (1873). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.318

And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

Children, Educational, Character

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Education, Math, Use

Phaedo 92

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Philosophy, Men, Practice

Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

Mean, Color, Cooking

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

Art, Taken, Play

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

Gold, Doe, Earth

Leges, 728a (translated byTrevor J Saunders,1970).

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

Artist, Light, Inspire

Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1993). “Symposium and Phaedrus”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Two, Trying, Human Nature

Plato (2017). “Symposium or Drinking Party”, p.23, Hackett Publishing

God ever geometrizes.

Beauty, God, Art

Attributed in Plutarch, Moralia

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

Art, Men, Thinking

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Any peace is better than any war

War

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

Beautiful, Plato, Eye

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.298

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Lying, Ignorance, Doe

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

Art, Holy Prophet, Order

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

Plato, Skins, Twelve

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.

Plato, Math, Men

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

Pain, Reason, Pleasure

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6136, Catholic Way Publishing

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