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Plato Quotes - Page 30

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For 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.

For 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.

Thinking, Soul, Looks

I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

Beautiful, Stupid, Thinking

Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Men, Knows, Wisest

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.109, Cosimo, Inc.

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

Faithful, Praise, Given

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

Self, Choices, Soul

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Blessing, Men, Evil

Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Plato, Learning, Ignorance

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”

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Ignorance, Roots, Evil

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

Writing, Men, Serious Man

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

Philosophy, Political, Words Of Wisdom

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

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Truth, Way, Relation

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1640, Delphi Classics

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Plato, Philosophical, Wealth

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

Queens, Sculpture, Tides

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

Army, Fighting, Cities

Plato (2016). “Symposium”, p.38, Lulu.com

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

Believe, Religion, Atheism

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.285, Cosimo, Inc.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Dance, Art, Mean

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Evil, Virtue, Harmony

Love: a grave mental disease.

Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

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”

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

Excellence, Doe, Wealth

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Men, Good Man, Affair

Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Mean, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

Feelings, Reputation, Action

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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, Philosophy, Becoming

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

Love, Money, War

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

Philosophy, Matter, Speak

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