“If it is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, as it had no willing association with… — Plato Copy Share Image
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the… — Plato Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. — Plato Copy Share Image
“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are… — Plato Copy Share Image
“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a… — Plato Copy Share Image
Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For… — Plato Copy Share Image
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In… — Plato Copy Share Image
As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy. — Plato Copy Share Image
“There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.” — Plato Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a… — 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
