Quotes by Plato

“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.”

“Ideas are the source of all things”

“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to t...”

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

“O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. ...”

“Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.”

“....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotiaby the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was bes...”

“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].”

“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.”

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”

“For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is to seem to know what one does not know: no one knows whether death does not even happen to be t...”

“You should not honor men more than truth.”

“....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed [] confronts fortune with stead...”

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”

“Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is no...”

“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”

“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest...”

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think...”