Plato Quotes

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start...

If the ancients had been able to see it as I see it now, Mr. Palomar thinks, they would have thought...

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining...

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state con...

Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I t...

Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after fort...

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiratio...

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch the...

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is ...

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really ...

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power ...

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable ...

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to thos...

...in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political heal...

There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I reg...

We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and n...

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order a...

... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but h...

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in...

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did ...

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only ...

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men...

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on...

Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or ruler...

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sou...

Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better t...

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render i...

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or...

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of ...