Plato Quotes

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create

Deepak Chopra

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Plato

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Plato

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Plato

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

Plato

... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.

Plato

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Plato

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Kurt Vonnegut

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato