Plato Quotes, Plato Quotes, Spring Quotes

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Spring Quotes

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Plato Quotes , Mean Quotes

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Intelligent Quotes

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Math Quotes

Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Lying Quotes

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Art Quotes , Plato Quotes

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Art Quotes , Plato Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Plato Quotes

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Honor Quotes

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Plato Quotes

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Plato Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Plato Quotes

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Plato Quotes

I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Plato Quotes

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abigail Solomon-Godeau Quotes , Plato Quotes , Mean Quotes

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Math Quotes

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Plato Quotes

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Wise Quotes , Plato Quotes

No human thing is of serious importance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Worry Quotes