Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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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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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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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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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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Courage is knowing what not to fear.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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 man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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