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.
PLATODo not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
More Plato Quotes
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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A life without investigation is not worth living.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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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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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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