Nature Quotes by Plato

Adultery is the injury of nature.

— Plato

Beauty is a natural superiority.

— Plato

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

— Plato

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is…

— Plato

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do…

— Plato

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

— Plato

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

— Plato

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

— Plato

“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato)”

— Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

— Plato

“All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty…

— Plato

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear…

— Plato

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other…

— Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy…

— Plato

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one…

— Plato

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less…

— Plato

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign…

— Plato

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils,…

— Plato

“For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth,…

— Plato

“the good are not so by nature...For if they were, this would follow: if the good were so by nature, we would…

— Plato

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,…

— Plato

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals…

— Plato

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness…

— Plato

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent…

— Plato

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties…

— Plato

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if…

— Plato

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

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,…

— Plato

“They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the…

— Plato

“By such reflections and by the continuance in them of a divine nature, th qualities which we have described grew and increased…

— Plato

“he who would proceed in due course should love first one fair form, and then many, and learn the connexion of them;…

— Plato

“[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic…

— Plato

“Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who are of a certain nature; he who…

— Plato

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

— Plato

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

— Plato

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

— Plato

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

— Plato

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties…

— Plato

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one…

— Plato

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape,…

— Plato