Plato Quotes, Love Quotes, Needs Quotes

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

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And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

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So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

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... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

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Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

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The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

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