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Plato Quotes - Page 36

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Government, Lust, Lovers

Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.

Love You, Men, And Love

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

Art, Plato, Numbers

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Truth, Thinking, Asks

Plato, Xenophon, Tom Griffith (2009). “On Socrates”, p.317, Collector's Library

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

Teacher, Learning, Science

The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

Men, Justice, Harmony

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.906, e-artnow

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

Evil, Rewards

Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.60, Courier Corporation

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

Philosophy, People, Dying

Plato (1913). “Plato”

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Taught, Virtue

Meno, 70a (translated byWK C Guthrie).

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

Men, Purpose, Upright Man

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.

May, Stills

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Equality, Justice, Suffering

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Men, Bird

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”

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

Psychology, Wish, Firsts

Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.9, Courier Corporation

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

Art, Men, Epic

Plato (2017). “Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)”, p.433, Plato

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

Doors, Geometry, Destitute

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

Inquiry, May, Lovers

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

Art, Drinking, Voice

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Death, Men, Excellence

Phaedo 118a

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

Truth, Mean, Science

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

Children, Parenting, Beast

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

What Matters, Firsts, Steps

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Plato, Believe, Ties

Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES (1852). “The Republic of Plato, Translated Into English, with an Introduction, Analysis, and Notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.289

If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

Science, Self, Giving

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.

Light, Poetry, Able

Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”

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