Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PLATOHumans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.
More Plato Quotes
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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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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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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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Love is a serious mental disease.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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Time is the moving image of reality.
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When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
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