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Topics: Plato Quotes

Philosophy is the highest music.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people...

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men...

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men...

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Love is a grave mental disease.

Love is a grave mental disease.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The good is the beautiful.

The good is the beautiful.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not...

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not...

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than...

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than...

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and...

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man...

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man...

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be...

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be...

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster...

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster...

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision...

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision...