Plato Quotes, Character Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Character Quotes , Responsibility Quotes

Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Love Is Quotes

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Moving Quotes , Views Quotes

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes

We become what we contemplate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Language Quotes , Discourse Quotes

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

...the Gods too love a joke.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Harmony Quotes , Results Quotes

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Spring Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Wise Quotes , Agreement Quotes

The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Instruction Quotes , Knows Quotes

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Soul Quotes , Musical Quotes

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Physicians 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

One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Prison Quotes , Slave Quotes

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Children Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Advice Quotes , Progress Quotes

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Purpose Quotes , Deities Quotes