“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“This was her original state; and then, as I was saying, and as the lovers of knowledge are well aware, philosophy, seeing… — Plato Copy Share Image
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak… — Plato Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men. — Plato Copy Share Image
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” — Plato Copy Share Image
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. — Plato Copy Share Image
“There is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial… — 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
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now… — Plato Copy Share Image
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so… — Plato Copy Share Image
“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some… — Plato Copy Share Image
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Unless,” I said, “the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize, and political power… — 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
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