When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when… — Plato Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits… — Plato Copy Share Image
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
.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities… — Plato Copy Share Image
If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that… — Plato Copy Share Image
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not… — Plato Copy Share Image
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have… — Plato Copy Share Image
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato Copy Share Image
You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn… — Plato Copy Share Image
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from… — Plato Copy Share Image
This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit. — Plato Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak. — Plato Copy Share Image
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember… — Plato Copy Share Image
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into… — Plato Copy Share Image
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. — Plato Copy Share Image
“True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they… — Plato Copy Share Image
“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better… — Plato Copy Share Image
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and… — 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
