Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not… — 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
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties… — Plato Copy Share Image
“And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with… — Plato Copy Share Image
“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The lesser mysteries of love For he who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful form;… — Plato Copy Share Image
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort. — Plato Copy Share Image
“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it… — Plato Copy Share Image
Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route. — Plato Copy Share Image
For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts;… — Plato Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of… — Plato Copy Share Image
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. — Plato Copy Share Image
“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great… — Plato Copy Share Image
He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a… — 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
“Beauty is the splendor of truth. (Die Schönheit ist der Glanz der Wahrheit)” — Plato Copy Share Image
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion. — Plato Copy Share Image
“he who would proceed in due course should love first one fair form, and then many, and learn the connexion of them;… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for… — Plato Copy Share Image
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly… — Plato Copy Share Image
The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of… — Plato Copy Share Image
It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image