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Plato Quotes about Soul - Page 2

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For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

Eye, Evil, Soul

Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.52, Booklassic

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

Eye, Soul, Geometry

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

Eye, Men, Soul

Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.26, University Press of America

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

Healthy, Soul, Body

Gorgias, 479b (translated byWR M Lamb,1967).

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

Soul, Body, Contemplating

Phaedo, 66d (translated by H Tredennick).

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Nature, Soul, World

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

Soul, Should

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

Eye, Soul, Body

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.11

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

Horse, Soul, Unions

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

Doors, Soul, Lust

Plato, Richard Dacre Archer-Hind (1973). “The Phaedo of Plato”, Ayer Co Pub

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

Writing, Soul, Geometry

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

Moving, Soul, Doe

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Soul, Geometry, Draws

Plato (2001). “Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind”, p.273, Agora Publications, Inc.

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

Soul, Body, Made

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Soul, Kind, Virtue

Plato (1849). “The Works of Plato: The Republic, Timaeus, and Critias”, p.130

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

Thinking, Soul, Looks

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

Self, Choices, Soul

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Work, Sleep, Soul

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.321

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

Soul, Principles, Way

Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

Soul, Doe, Sake

Republic, bk.6, 505e (translated by GM AGrube, revised by C D C Reeve).

SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

Convince Us, Justice, Soul

Plato (1892). “Republic. Timaeus. Critias”

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

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Pain, Soul, Relief

Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.426, Courier Corporation

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Men, Soul, Next

Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

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