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- If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools. Plato. Government, Political, Politics.
- Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind. Plato. Reality, Mind.
- A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. Plato. Wise, Plato, Men.
- No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. Plato. Plato, Hero, Speak.
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ― Plato.
- “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.”
- “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.” ― Plato.
- “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato.
- Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato.
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato.
- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato.
- Love is a serious mental disease. Plato.
Jan 12, 2023 · Discover the wisdom of Plato, one of the first philosophers and a teacher to Aristotle. Learn from his quotes on topics such as education, justice, politics, philosophy, life and more.
- “What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to be its opposite, namely pain!
- “Whenever someone, on seeing something, realizes that that which he now sees wants to be like some other reality but falls short and cannot be like that other since it is inferior, do we agree that one who thinks this must have prior knowledge of that to which he says it is like, but deficiently so?”
- “Well, you know what happens to lovers: whenever they see a lyre, a garment or anything else that their beloved is accustomed to use, they know the lyre, and the image of the boy to whom it belongs comes into their mind.”
- “For this," he said, "is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.” ― Plato, The Complete Works of Plato.
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Discover the wisdom and insights of Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher and founder of Western political philosophy. Browse 58 quotes from his dialogues, including Apology, where he defends his life and ideas before his death sentence.
Jan 14, 2024 · Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
