Plato Quotes
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Even the gods love jokes.
- Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a…
- Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
- Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
- Love: a grave mental disease.
- A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
- Courage is a kind of salvation.
- Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been…
- Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
- The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of…
- Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which…
- Man is a being in search of meaning.
- That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It…
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.