Plato Quotes

Biography: Plato is known for being a foundational philosopher in Western thought... more Biography: Plato is known for being a foundational philosopher in Western thought and a student of Socrates. He founded the Academy in Athens and authored philosophical works exploring justice, reality, and knowledge, such as "The Republic." Plato's ideas have profoundly influenced Western philosophy and the intellectual tradition. less

"The first and best victory is to conquer self""All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman""There is no harm in repeating a good thing""Science is nothing but perception""The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant""At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet""Only the dead have seen the end of war ""Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue""Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws""Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private""He whom love touches not walks in darkness""Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself""Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back""Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance""The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself""Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens""The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture""The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings""Time is the moving image of eternity""The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men"

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