What is the best Plato quote?

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." - Plato

What are some Plato quotes?

"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." "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

What are some short Plato quotes?

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself." "Love is a serious mental disease." - Plato

How many quotes did Plato wrote?

The author Plato wrote around 767 of quotes.

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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

You’re my Star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were Heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you!

There is truth in wine and children.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.

I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

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Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

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When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

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Geometry existed before creation.

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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

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To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

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Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." Aristotle does not confront this position directly: he merely emphasizes that it is better still both to be free from having done evil and to be free from being tortured on the rack.

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My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

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I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

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The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen

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Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens.

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―¿Qué leías antes de que te interrumpiera? ¿Me dejas verlo?―Este no lo he leído. Me había parecido el «Fedón»; lo hicimos en el colegio. ¿De qué trata?―De las reglas de la retórica.―¿Te interesa la retórica? Si me pidieran que dijera la persona a quien pudiera interesarle menos la retórica, diría que a ti.―En realidad me parece que la gente lo lee más por los discursos como ejemplos. Hay tres, pero el primero es bastante insulso, solo lo ha puesto para desacreditarlo. Sócrates lo recompone como le parece que debería ser. Y luego decide que no debería existir porque no es cierto, de modo que hace uno propio sobre el mismo tema.―¿Qué tema?―El amor. El primer discurso se propone demostrar que un amante que no está enamorado es preferible a otro que lo esté porque es menos celoso, más civilizado y en general resulta más fácil vivir con él.―Parece que no valía la pena escribirlo la primera vez, y mucho menos volver a redactarlo.―Quizá, pero la versión de Sócrates es muy graciosa, y, en realidad, muy cierta. Como todo se basa en la definición de amor, le da completamente la vuelta en la refutación, que es lo mejor de la pieza.―Léemela.―¿Cómo? No, no... Es demasiado larga.―Entonces léeme lo que puedas.―No, lo estropearía. Contiene el famoso mito del auriga.―No lo conozco. Explícamelo.―Bueno... Compara el alma con un auriga que conduce dos caballos alados enganchados uno junto a otro.―Sigue.―Cada dios tiene un par de caballos blancos divinos, pero el alma solo tiene uno. El otro es negro y zarrapastroso, chato, de cuello grueso, menudillos peludos, ojos grises inyectados en sangre y orejas caídas. Es duro de oído, de pellejo grueso y dado a desbocarse cada vez que ve algo que le apetece. Así pues, los dos animales coinciden en pocas cosas, pero el auriga tiene que mantenerlos juntos en el camino. El dios que conduce sus dos caballos tordos bien aparejados va delante marcando el paso; llega a una pista que rodea el cielo y es arrastrado con la eternidad en sus giros, como...―Como un gran anillo de luz pura e infinita.―Sí, sí, supongo que de ahí lo sacó Vaughan. Ahora, en cualquier momento preguntarás: «¿Qué tiene todo esto que ver con el amor?».

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[...] y así les ocurre a los seguidores de los demás dioses. Cada hombre se esfuerza por honrar e imitar en su vida al dios a cuyo coro pertenecía, mientras permanece incorrupto en su primera encarnación; y en la manera que ha aprendido se muestra ante su amado y ante los demás.Así, cada uno escoge de entre los hermosos un amor que corresponde a su índole; y entonces, como si su elegido fuera su dios, lo eleva y lo viste para la adoración [...] y esta ansia por descubrir la esencia de su propio dios en sí mismos es recompensada, pues están obligados a mirar al dios sin vacilación, y cuando la memoria lo retiene, su respiración los inspira y comparten sus atributos y su vida, en la medida en que un hombre puede participar de la divinidad. Y por estas bendiciones dan gracias al amado y lo aman todavía más [...] y llena el alma del amado [...]Por lo tanto está enamorado, pero no sabe de quién; no sabe qué le ha sucedido, no lo entiende. Se ve en su amante como en un espejo, sin saber a quién ve. Y cuando están juntos también él se ve liberado del dolor, y cuando están separados añora como él es añorado; pues reflejada en su corazón está la imagen del amor, que es la respuesta del amor. Pero lo llama y lo considera no amor sino amistad [...]

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Encontrar a Fedro guiando a Sócrates casi al mismo sitio, quizá lo era, le había impresionado profundamente. El árbol de amplia copa, la verde ladera en que recostarse, el agua fría al pie; sólo faltaban las ofrendas votivas y el santuario. «Concededme ser hermoso por dentro ―había suplicado Sócrates― y haced que las cosas exteriores e interiores se reconcilien».

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Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.

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Remembering and ForgettingYou have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget.But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember – and generally more practical.

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Nothing has been as instructive in exploring the notion of authenticity as relearning the work of the great philosophers Aristotle and Plato. We are struck by their applicability to our work as we help companies and people develop their brands. Why do these early philosophers have so much to say that is helpful to modern marketers? We believe it is because they were focused on the fundamental issues of authenticity that we all face: Who are we? Why are we? How should we behave? Asking these questions encourages us to deepen our self-awareness. In particular, this issue of “who are we?” is critical. Knowing who we are is the key to elevating our capacities and performance.

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Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

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No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

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Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or Plato. And they don't smile much. Nominalists have more fun. They are known as Aristotle or Decimus-et-Ultimus Barziza, or as Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montague, or perhaps by one name in childhood and several others in the course of life. A firm Realist misses out on one of the most satisfying of all human activities -- the assumption of secret identities. A man who has lived and never been someone else has never lived. It is true that occasionally there can be embarrassment in secret identities, but only a Realist will take the whole thing seriously enough to hit you. So have your fun, and avoid Realists.