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Form Quotes by Plato
- The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all…
- Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
- In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we…
- Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all…
- A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
- And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance…
- So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises…
- The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to…
- 'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves…
- Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping....
- The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
- There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the…
- When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to…
- For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he…
- And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The…
- Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
- Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike
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- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle