Plato Quotes about Beauty

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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

Plato

Beauty, Character, Hands

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

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Plato

Beauty, Inspirational Life, Simple

Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

Plato

Beauty, Wings, Soul

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

Plato

Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.228

The good is the beautiful.

Plato

Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophical

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

Plato

Beauty, Beautiful, Causality

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

Plato

Beauty, Eye, Men

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.107, Penguin

Beauty is a natural superiority.

Plato

Beauty, Natural, Superiority

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”

For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

Plato

Beauty, Beautiful, Youth

Plato (2013). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.316, Simon and Schuster