Plato Quotes

Science is nothing but perception.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Necessity who is the mother of our invention.

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

A good education is another name for happiness.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Beauty, like an animal, doesn’t always behave.

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.