Plato

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.

Plato

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Plato

It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

Plato

It’s like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn’t make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Plato

It’s not from money that excellence comes, but from excellence money and the other things, all of them, come to be good for human beings, whether in private or in public life.

Plato

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Plato

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child’s natural bent.

Plato

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato