Ideas are the source of all things.
PLATOPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
More Plato Quotes
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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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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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The first and best victory is to conquer self.
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The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
PLATO