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Plato Quotes - Page 37

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The god is the beautiful.

The god is the beautiful.

Beautiful

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

Divinity, Poet, Bondage

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

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Military, Design, Democracy

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Plato, Character, Mean

Plato (2013). “The Republic: A Socratic Dialogue Concerning the Definition of Justice and the Order and Character of the Just City-State and the Just Man (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.322, Lulu Press, Inc

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

Mother, Plato, Alive

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

Hate, Heart, Men

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

Harmony, Difficult, Rhythm

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

Moon, Doubt, Littles

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

Philosophical, Self, Needs

Plato (1873). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.190

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

Good Things, Beneficial, Ifs

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Knowledge, Science, Dedication

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Music, Simple, Simplicity

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.485, Xist Publishing

If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

Sex, Excellence, Unions

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Vices, Virtue, Produce

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”

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

Running, Strong, Thinking

Plato (0101). “Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

Jobs, Class, Evil

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

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Friendship, Enemy, Dangerous

Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.196

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

Distance, Conditions

Plato (1926). “Cratylus: Parmenides ; Greater Hippias ; Lesser Hippias”, Loeb Classical Library

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Plato, Numbers, Soul

Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.24, University Press of America

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

Wise, Men, Gold

Plato, Henry Cary (1852). “The Works of Plato: A New and Literal Version, Chiefly from the Text of Stallbaum”, p.360

The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

Doctors, Citizens, Constitution

Republic

Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

Plato, Physicians, Body

Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.22

The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.

Wings, Race, Flying

Plato (1953). “Plato: With an English Translation”

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

Plato, Reality, Giving

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.

Wise, Exercise, Class

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