Plato Quotes

286 Plato quotes by 150 unique authors

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. — Plato
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. — Plato
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. — Plato
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. — Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little. — Plato
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is… — Plato
Democracy passes into despotism. — Plato
Philosophy is the highest music. — Plato
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato
Knowledge is true opinion. — Plato
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato
All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's… — Jean Baudrillard
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and… — J. G. Farrell
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo,… — Luce Irigaray
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth… — D. H. Lawrence
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. — Werner Heisenberg
Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal… — Bertrand Russell
Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and… — Richard Rohr
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. — Robert McKee
I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made… — Roger Penrose
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton
Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar… — Mark Steel
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. — Libby Houston
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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