Soul Quotes by Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

— Plato

No soul willfully does wrong.

— Plato

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

— Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

— Plato

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

— Plato

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

— Plato

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

— Plato

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

— Plato

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

— Plato

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

— Plato

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

— Plato

Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding

— Plato

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

— Plato

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

— Plato

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

— Plato

“When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.”

— Plato

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is…

— Plato

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other…

— Plato

“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in…

— Plato

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although…

— 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

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest…

— Plato

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be…

— Plato

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic…

— Plato

Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my…

— Plato

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

— Plato

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the…

— Plato

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the…

— Plato

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too…

— Plato

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by…

— Plato

He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make…

— Plato

“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he…

— 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 souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often…

— Plato

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

— Plato

“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great…

— Plato

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

— Plato

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

— Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe.

— Plato