Plato Quotes

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 I have.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

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

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

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

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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 good that can happen to man.