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.
PLATOWriting is the geometry of the soul.
More Plato Quotes
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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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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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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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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