“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“All is flux, nothing stays still”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Time is the moving image of reality”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Ideas are the source of all things”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“a life without investigation is not worth living”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά
Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“All learning has an emotional base.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
“What is honored in a country will be cultivated there"
― Plato (428-348BC)