Man is a being in search of meaning.
PLATOThose who tell the stories rule society.
More Plato Quotes
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A house that has a library in it has a soul.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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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.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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