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Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Plato
Reality, Mind

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

Plato
Artist, Reality, Giving

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Plato
Reality, Political, Words Of Wisdom
Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Plato
Reality, Words Of Wisdom, Function

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our 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 with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

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Children, Passion, Reality

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

Plato
Character, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

Plato
Reality, Men, Words Of Wisdom

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

Plato
Reality, Mind, Vision

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

Plato
Heart, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Plato
Memories, Reality, Wings
Plato, Alexander Nehamas, Paul Woodruff (1995). “Phaedrus”, p.37, Hackett Publishing

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
Plato, Reality, Giving

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