Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
PLATOLove is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
More Plato Quotes
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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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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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
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True friendship can exist only between equals.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has 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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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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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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But Above all things truth beareth away the victory.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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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.
PLATO