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Plato Quotes - Page 33

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What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

Men, Vanity, What If

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

Know Thyself, Knows, Thyself

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

Tasks, Too Much, Rooms

The 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 best.

Plato, Thinking, Cities

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

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

Art, Science, Would Be

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

Character, Wit

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

Memories, Character, Discovery

Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.545, Catholic Way Publishing

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

Doe, Needs, Firsts

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

Plato, People, Atheism

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

Inspirational, Running, Men

Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Wisdom, Advantage, Spokes

Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): 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.103, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.

Errors, Shoes, Feet

Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.328

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Giving Up, Philosophy, Long

C. D. C. Reeve, Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon (2002). “The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

Plato, Science, Movement

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

Moving, Views, Order

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

Light, Mind, Oracles

Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.175, Booklassic

... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

Political, Being Positive, Way

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

Plato, Real, Independent

Plato, John Llewelyn Davies (1996). “Republic”, p.246, Wordsworth Editions

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

Kings, Philosophical, Humanity

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

Sweet, Opposites, Desire

Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.122, Booklassic

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

Teaching, Wine, Exercise

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

Writing, Simple, Libertarian

God is a geometrician.

God, Art, Philosophy

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”

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

Music, Hands, Grace

Plato, D. J. Allan (1957). “Republic: ...”

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

Government, Democracy, Kind

The Republic bk. 8, 558c

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