Philosopher · Greek · 152 quotes
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato
Philosopher · Greek
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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?
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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.
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Philosophy is the highest music.
Life must be lived as play.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
It is right to give every man his due.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Man - a being in search of meaning.
Science is nothing but perception.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Knowledge is true opinion.
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
The wisest have the most authority.
Your silence gives consent.
The good is the beautiful.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
