Quotes from Plato

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

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

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Science is nothing but perception.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

Wine fills the heart with courage.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

I have good hope that there is something after death.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.