A life without investigation is not worth living.
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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Time is the moving image of reality.
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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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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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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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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.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
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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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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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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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