40 quotes found
“You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.”
“What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.”
“The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.”
“Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not t...”
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
“There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to...”
“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.”
“The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.”
“Here's something else I'd like your opinion about," I said. "If he went back underground and sat down again in the same spot, wouldn't the sudden transition from the sunlight mean that his eyes wou...”
“Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.”
“...in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political health, nor is there a single ally with whom one might go to the aid of justice and still remain aliv...”
“We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provi...”
“[W]hen men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to hav...”
“The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the...”
“Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blindisn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?”
“I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have given them was all something that happened to them only in a dre...”
“Imagine that the keeper of a huge, strong beast notices what makes it angry, what it desires, how it has to be approached and handled, the circumstances and the conditions under which it becomes pa...”
“Justice is useful when money is useless.”
“It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.”
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
