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.
PLATOPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
More Plato Quotes
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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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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No human thing is of serious importance.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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