All Plato Quotes
- The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. Amongst
- All learning is in the learner, not the teacher. All
- Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Begins
- Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet… Aside
- The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price. Beyond
- When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Amount
- Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to… Business
- Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered… Beauty
- Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the… Belief
- Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this… Aim
- And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and… Absorbing
- And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are… Angry
- When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one. Citizens
- Only the dead have seen the end of war. Dead
- And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives… Abuse
- The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though… Best
- Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. Censure
- God is not the author of all things, but of good only. All
- For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not… Appear
- The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour,… Alike