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Best 139 Quotes by Plato – Page 4 of 5

The Allegory of the Cave Quotes

“Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.”

The Allegory of the Cave

The Republic Quotes

“Appearance tyrannizes over truth.”

The Republic

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

The Republic

“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.”

The Republic

“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if they oppose him? So the tyrant is a parricide, and little comfort to his old parent.”

The Republic

“Each individual can only do one thing well. He can't do lots of things. If he tries, he will be jack of all trades, and master of none.”

The Republic

“Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.”

The Republic

“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.”

The Republic

“Every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion.”

The Republic

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

The Republic

“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”

The Republic

“Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind – isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?”

The Republic

“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.”

The Republic

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

The Republic

“I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger.”

The Republic

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”

The Republic

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“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by philosophy to complete uselessness as members of society.”

The Republic

“It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.”

The Republic

“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”

The Republic

“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.”

The Republic

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

The Republic

“No man should be angry at what is true. But those who love the truth in each thing are to be called lovers of wisdom and not lovers of opinion.”

The Republic

“Nothing beautiful without struggle.”

The Republic

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

The Republic

“Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.”

The Republic

“That's what education should be, the art of orientation.”

The Republic

“The beginning is the most important part of any work.”

The Republic

“The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.”

The Republic

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

The Republic

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

The Republic

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“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors.”


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