“the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue,” — Plato Copy Share Image
...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it… — Plato Copy Share Image
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt. — Plato Copy Share Image
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not. — Plato Copy Share Image
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato Copy Share Image
Astronomy compel the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Plato Copy Share Image
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul. — Plato Copy Share Image
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest… — Plato Copy Share Image
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be… — Plato Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things… — Plato Copy Share Image
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other… — Plato Copy Share Image
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my… — Plato Copy Share Image
It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the… — Plato Copy Share Image
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm… — Plato Copy Share Image
“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye… — Plato Copy Share Image
“And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey… — Plato Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Now in the earthly likenesses of justice and temperance and all other prized possessions of the soul there dwells no luster; nay,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“...each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual-- as for example someone is said to be… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share