Spirituality Quotes by Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

— Plato

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

— Plato

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

— Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

— Plato

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

— Plato

Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

— Plato

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato

A house that has a library in it has a 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

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

— Plato

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

— 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

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

— Plato

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

— Plato

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

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

— Plato

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things…

— 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

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest…

— Plato

“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness…

— Plato

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and…

— Plato

“And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you…

— Plato

“Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye…

— Plato

“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether…

— Plato

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

— Plato

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &…

— Plato

“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey…

— Plato

“Now in the earthly likenesses of justice and temperance and all other prized possessions of the soul there dwells no luster; nay,…

— Plato

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

— Plato

“...each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual-- as for example someone is said to be…

— Plato

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

— Plato

“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”

— Plato

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

— Plato

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

— Plato

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

— Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe.

— Plato