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Plato Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“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, Plato: Complete Works
Tagged: Life, Darkness, Men, Light, Philosophical
“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
— Plato, The Dialogues of Plato
Tagged: Wonder, Philosopher, Curiosity, Adventure
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
— Plato, The Courage of Faith: Some Philosophical Reflections
Tagged: Courage, Fear, Bravery, Awareness
“We once believed ourselves to understand it, but are now in difficulty.”
— Plato, The Sophist
Tagged: The Clearing, Socrates Thesis, You Know Nothing, Philosophical
“Mortals call him fluttering love, but the immortals call him winged one, because the growing of wings is a necessity to him.”
— Plato, Phaedrus
Tagged: Love, Love Never Lasts, Love Leaves
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
— Plato, Music, Plato
“Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.”
— Plato, Laws
Tagged: Education, Ignorance, Knowledge, School, Parenthood, Philosophy
“Every one of us is like a man who sees things in a dream and thinks that he knows them perfectly and then wakes up to find that he knows nothing.”
— Plato, The Life of the Mind: Vols 1&2
Tagged: You Know Nothing, Ex-formation, Socrates Thesis, (EX)Formation, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Man, as we say, is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”
— Plato, Laws
Tagged: Man, humans, human beings, Human Behavior, human actions, Human Arrogance, human goodness
“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
— Plato, Symposium
Tagged: soulmates, Love, Forever, Fear of losing someone
“Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.”
— Plato, Plato: The Complete Works (31 Books)
Tagged: Deep Insights, Thinking, Thoughts, Soul
“I have a favor to ask of the judges. When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have trouble you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing—then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking they are something when they are really nothing. And if you do this both I and my sons will have received just at your hands.”
— Socrates, Plato, Socrates' Apology
Tagged: Life
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