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Plato Quotes about Inspirational

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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Inspirational, Life, People

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

Inspirational, Passion, Essentials

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Inspirational, Justice, Form

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Inspirational, Dream, Philosophical

Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Inspirational, Life, Plato

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 real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Love, Inspirational, Education

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Inspirational, Recognition

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Inspirational, Philosophy, Feelings

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Inspirational, Courage, Philosophical

Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Love, Inspirational, Darkness

Plato (2012). “Symposium and Phaedrus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Inspirational, Plato, Philosophical

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

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

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

Inspirational, Giving, Levels

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Inspirational, Plato, Men

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

Inspirational, Loss, Mind

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Inspirational, Men, Evil

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Inspirational, Party, Mean

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

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”

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Inspirational, Life, Lambs

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1666, Delphi Classics

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Inspirational, Plato, Men

Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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

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