Psychology Quotes by Plato

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

— Plato

“Handwriting is the shackle of the mind.”

— Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.

— Plato

Music is to the mind as air is to the body...

— Plato

Love is a severe mental disorder.

— Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

— Plato

Love is a serious mental illness.

— Plato

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

— Plato

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

— Plato

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The…

— Plato

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

— Plato

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

— Plato

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

— Plato

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

— Plato

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

— Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly…

— Plato

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired…

— Plato

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless…

— Plato

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

— Plato

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and…

— Plato

“I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once…

— 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

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

— Plato

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities…

— Plato

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content…

— Plato

“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for…

— Plato

“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm…

— Plato

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not…

— Plato

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning…

— Plato

“True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they…

— Plato

When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when…

— Plato

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two…

— Plato

“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender…

— Plato

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two…

— Plato

“So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described,…

— Plato

This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.

— Plato

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the…

— Plato

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from…

— Plato

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two…

— Plato