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Plato Quotes - Page 32

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Philosophy is the highest music.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Music, Wisdom, Plato

Plato (2016). “Apology Of Socrates And Crito”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Opposites, Serious Things, Understood

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Inspiration, Understanding, Talent

Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato, Lying, Enemy

Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.80

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

Knowing, Dancing, Good Education

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

Beautiful, Light, Wish

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

Plato, Justice, Lasts

Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

Law, Giving, Office

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

Generations, Immortality, Everlasting

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.170, Courier Corporation

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Flutes, Moral, Instruments

Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

Plato, Ignorant, Mathematics

c.380 BC Inscription over the door of theAcademy at Athens.

And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

Stars, Plato, Men

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Work, Sleep, Soul

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.321

...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

Jobs, Men, People

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

Kings, Plato, Philosophy

Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.206, First Avenue Editions

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

Soul, Principles, Way

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Philosophical, Destiny, Men

Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.236

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

Encouraging, Running, Perseverance

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Beautiful, Writing, Ink

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.35, Catholic Way Publishing

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Spring, Ignorance, Men

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.231, Cosimo, Inc.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Death, Real, Knowing

Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.30, Courier Corporation

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Men, Tolerable

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

Love, Children, Plato

Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

Soul, Doe, Sake

Republic, bk.6, 505e (translated by GM AGrube, revised by C D C Reeve).

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