Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are…
— Plato
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[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing…
— Tyler Burge
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
— Plato
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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
— Plato
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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
— Plato
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
— Plato
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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
— Plato
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
— Plato
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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
— Plato
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To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
— Plato
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
— Plato
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
— Plato
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The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
— Plato
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
— Plato
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
— Socrates
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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
— Plato
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
— Plato
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
— Socrates
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
— Plato
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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
— Plato
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Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
— Socrates
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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
— Plato
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
— Plato
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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
— Plato
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
— Plato
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