Plato Quotes - Page 4

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato
...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
Plato
Ideas are the source of all things
Plato
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
Plato
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
Plato
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
Plato
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
Plato
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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.
Plato
Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato
...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...
Plato
You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!
Plato
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say: Fools because they have to say something
Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Plato
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato
Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.
Plato
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
Plato