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Human Quotes by Plato
- States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
- No human thing is of serious importance.
- 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…
- Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
- To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will…
- Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
- And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his…
- Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human…
- Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and…
- 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…
- You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
- Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two…
- Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being
- For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the…
- The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
- A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and…
- And not only did men pass into animals, but I must also mention that there were animals tame and wild who changed into one another…
- Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell