The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting. Plato More Quotes by Plato More Quotes From Plato ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people. Plato jobs men people The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good. Plato design spiritual perfect For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them Plato honor giving men Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence. Plato educational military war Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large. Plato body would-be people Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same. Plato honor desire men We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven. Plato our-world air sight The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes. Plato sake science knowledge It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality? Plato causality beautiful beauty If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection. Plato humanity perfection wise It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine. Plato medicine kindness men Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. Plato pleasure people knowledge And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death. Plato plato men boys Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure. Plato law sound men In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good. Plato masters may knowledge All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place. Plato recognition inspirational Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. Plato philosopher affection philosophy Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. Plato reviews philosophical workout If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice. Plato notable ifs practice The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings. Plato soul wings beauty
