Top 25 Quotes by Plato of 942 - Page 35

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Plato

Running, Men, Hymns

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

Plato

Philosophical, Unrest, Politics

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato

Education, Philosophy, Philosophical

Plato, Seth Benardete (1986). “Plato's Theaetetus: Part I of The Being of the Beautiful”, University of Chicago Press

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

Plato

Twelve, Balls, Looks

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

Death, Plato, Lasts

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato

Men, Thinking, Honor

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

Plato

Would Be, Virtue, Given

Plato (1900). “Symposium”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

Plato

Fighting, Thinking, Knowing

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Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

Plato

Wings, Long, Evil

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.902, e-artnow

When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.

Plato

Real, Mean, Two Friends

Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

Plato

Encouragement, Giving, World

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.901, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

Plato

Beautiful, Mean, Men

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

Plato

Heaven, Poet

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.1522, e-artnow

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Plato

Music, Beautiful, Affair

Plato, Thomas Taylor, Floyer Sydenham (1984). “The Works of Plato”, Facsimiles-Garl

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Plato

Justice, Champion, Private Life

Plato (1959). “The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito [and] Phaedo”

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Plato

Men, Self, Mind

Plato, C. D. C. Reeve (2012). “A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues”, p.231, Hackett Publishing

Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

Plato

Spiritual, Love Is, Great Spirit

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

Plato

Use, Force, Said

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”

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Plato

Words Of Wisdom, Use, Philosopher

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

Plato

Beautiful, Wise, Love Is

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

Plato

Men, Poet, Every Man

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Plato

People, Priorities, Care

Plato (2010). “The Last Days of Socrates”, p.27, Penguin UK

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Plato

War, Fighting, People

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.121, e-artnow

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Plato

Doe, Casting, Deceiving

Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.1049, Hackett Publishing

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

Plato

Giving, Use, Done

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.903, e-artnow

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