Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed. Plato More Quotes by Plato More Quotes From Plato The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal. Plato plato math knowledge Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors Plato inferiors refuse Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night. Plato men night death May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me. Plato ethics should may Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato philosophical life thinking Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato injustice plato may Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish. Plato idlers democracy bees Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul. Plato remembered knowing soul It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. Plato return noble evil The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. Plato injustice highest No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato philosophical understanding law To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. Plato disgraceful injustice suffering Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Plato eye beauty men A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well. Plato good-education dancing knowing ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole. Plato class ideas thinking The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest. Plato he-man soul men And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well. Plato skills ignorance judging The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union. Plato unions horse soul Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato valentines-day love art A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. Plato confused eye men
