Plato

Plato

"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
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"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
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
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
Plato
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"
Plato
"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."
Plato
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
Plato
"Knowledge is the food of the soul."
Plato
"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."
Plato
"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."
Plato
"Writing is the geometry of the soul."
Plato
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
Plato
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."
Plato
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something."
Plato
"He was a wise man who invented God."
Plato
"Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?"
Plato
"You should not honor men more than truth."
Plato
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
Plato
"Ideas are the source of all things"
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"Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."
Plato
"Philosophy is the highest music."
Plato
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