Plato Quotes

“Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.”

“The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.”

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.”

“He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.”

“Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.”

“Everything changes and nothing remains still.”

“Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.”

“A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

“The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.”

“Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”

“The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.”

“Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.”

“Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.”

“... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.”

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”

“Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”

“From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.”

“The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.”

“Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.”

“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”

“Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.”

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”

“Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world”