Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PLATOWe 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.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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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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I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
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