The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging. Plato More Quotes by Plato More Quotes From Plato Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties. Plato causes ignorance roots The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live. Plato study men life One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on. Plato ambition character reality The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a Plato privilege awakening soul A house that has a library in it has a soul. Plato thought-provoking healing house A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things. Plato gratitude thankful thank-you One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison. Plato slave prison persons There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive. Plato hearing integrity men Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. Plato self wise beautiful He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act Plato wish country thinking A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books. Plato wealth-and-happiness wealth-of-knowledge book For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes. Plato eye soul evil If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others. Plato lanterns hope-for-the-future ifs I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with Plato words-of-wisdom may children There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. Plato poverty citizens evil The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. Plato pure form math Man is a being in search of meaning. Plato vision plato men Nothing ever is, everything is becoming. Plato perspective becoming change We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. Plato parenting plato children More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else. Plato doe ease men
