He was a wise man who invented God.
PLATOLove 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.
More Plato Quotes
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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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.
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Do 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.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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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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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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Ideas are the source of all things.
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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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