Order Quotes by Plato

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the…

— Plato

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

— Plato

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

— Plato

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

— Plato

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

— Plato

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

— Plato

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

— 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

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a…

— Plato

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for…

— Plato

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to…

— Plato

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have…

— Plato

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms…

— Plato

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &…

— Plato

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

— Plato

And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to…

— Plato

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

— Plato

In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order.…

— Plato