Beautiful Quotes by Plato

The god is the beautiful.

— Plato

The good is the beautiful.

— Plato

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

— Plato

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

— Plato

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

— Plato

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

— Plato

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

— Plato

“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά Nothing beautiful without struggle.”

— Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

— Plato

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

— Plato

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

— Plato

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty,…

— Plato

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest,…

— Plato

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful…

— Plato

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest…

— Plato

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

— Plato

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

— Plato

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all…

— Plato

Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my…

— Plato

“Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that…

— Plato

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who…

— Plato

For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts;…

— Plato

I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the…

— Plato

“... there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only…

— Plato

“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects…

— Plato

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object…

— Plato

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,…

— Plato

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

— Plato

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato