Plato Quotes

“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's...”

― Plato, Symposium

topic:love desire

“love is the desire of the whole”

― Plato, Symposium

topic:love

“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul”

― Plato, Symposium

topic:love soul body

“It would seem, Adeimantus, that the direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:life education future

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

― Plato, The Republic

topic:knowledge education learning mind teaching body

“That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:knowledge eternity

“The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:freedom slavery liberty

“But when he has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:fear war peace people leadership

“Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain?”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:men wisdom money

“the States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:men character

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