Desire Quotes by Plato

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

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“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.”

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”

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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

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

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to…

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For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is…

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Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no…

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“To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.”

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The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

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Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I…

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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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

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

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the…

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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to…

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

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When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then…

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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of…

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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen,…

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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires…

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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury…

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Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who…

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“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible,…

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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for…

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Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination…

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Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public…

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“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire,…

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