Quotes by Plato

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“ A dog has the soul of a philosopher. “

-Plato-

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.

There are two things which should be cultivated in the soul: first, the greatest courage; secondly, the greatest fear.

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

Ideas are the source of all things

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

The first and best victory is to conquer self

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Virtue is not given by money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the State.

The soul is nourished by learning.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Philosophy is the highest music.

The world is a living creature.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled from the soul of man and illuminating his mind.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

The truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

Society is the mother of law, and law the mother of order.

The soul is the ruler of the body.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil.

The greatest of all the arts is the art of learning.

Justice is giving every man his due.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The soul is imprisoned in the body.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Nature is a thing that does not change easily, and has nothing to do with anyone.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The truth is that every man who really has a regard for his own opinion must be his own master.

States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.

The soul of a man is immortal and imperishable.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

A good education is another name for happiness.

Justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice is the principle of order in political society.

The love of the beautiful constitutes love of all beauty.

Virtue is the beauty, and vice the deformity, of the soul.

The soul of the virtuoso proceeds from his innate bent and genius, and for the most part is the soul of a hero.

Society is a reflection of the soul.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

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

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

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 the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

The soul is the prison of the body.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.

The wisest have the most authority.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

The soul is like a charioteer with two horses.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but...from virtue comes wealth and all other things good for man, both the individual and society.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

The soul of the philosopher alone has wings.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Love is a serious mental disease.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

He who contemplates the depths of the heavens does not tremble at the darkness of the abyss.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

All learning has an emotional base.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Democracy passes into despotism.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

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

Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I learn from everyone, those who praise me and those who criticize me. I learn from the mistakes of others, for they are dedicated to showing me where the dangers lie.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

No man should be allowed to make his tools.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Thầy cô có trách nhiệm giúp học sinh phát huy hết tiềm năng của mình.

Kiến thức là sức mạnh.

Nền giáo dục tốt nhất cho một đứa trẻ là sự bảo vệ của cha mẹ và sự dạy dỗ của giáo viên.

Những hành động tốt trao cho chúng ta sức mạnh, và gợi mở người khác cũng làm điều tốt.

Introducing Plato

Plato (c. 427-347 BCE) was a prominent ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, and the teacher of Aristotle. He founded the Academy in Athens, one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in the Western world. Plato is best known for his dialogues, which are written works in which philosophical ideas are explored through conversations, often featuring Socrates as a central figure. His most famous work, The Republic, examines justice, the ideal state, and the nature of the individual soul. Plato’s philosophy is centered around his theory of Forms, which posits that the material world is only a shadow of a higher, unchanging reality of ideal Forms or ideas. He also made significant contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, influencing Western thought for centuries.