Quotes by Plato Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them. Plato swimming plato feelings And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us. Plato lasts plato justice The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin. Plato twelve skins plato Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. Plato ignorance plato science Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument. Plato plato soul numbers States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. Plato philosophical plato pregnancy That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen. Plato plato philosophy thinking Truth is its own reward. Plato rewards plato truth In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions. Plato passion plato love We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. Plato plato wise heaven There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. Plato atheism plato people If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed. Plato ties plato believe Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. Plato noble plato honor Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe. Plato plato law believe Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly. Plato plato character mean The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. Plato penalties politics plato They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. Plato honesty plato truth Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not? Plato physicians body plato I have good hope that there is something after death. Plato dying plato death Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. Randal Marlin philosopher plato common «1314151617181920212223»
