Philosophy Quotes by Plato

Philosophy is the highest music.

— Plato

Your dog is your only philosopher.

— Plato

Philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

— Plato

God is a geometrician.

— Plato

“Time is the moving image of eternity.”

— Plato

“Philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato”

— Plato

“As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.”

— Plato

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

— Plato

“let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.”

— Plato

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

— Plato

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

— Plato

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

— Plato

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

— Plato

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

— Plato

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming,…

— Plato

“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.”

— Plato

“The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the…

— Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

— Plato

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close…

— Plato

“Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.”

— Plato

“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the…

— Plato

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak…

— Plato

“We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what…

— Plato

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or…

— Plato

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all…

— Plato

“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse…

— Plato

“There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those…

— Plato

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we…

— Plato

“Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In…

— Plato

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course,…

— Plato

“Unless,” I said, “the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize, and political power…

— Plato

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a…

— Plato

“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it…

— Plato

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until…

— Plato

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

— Plato

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no…

— Plato

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

— Plato

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning…

— Plato

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

— Plato