Plato's 100 Best Phrases on Life, Education and Time

I leave you 100 Phrases of Plato About life, education, time, love, time, knowledge, politics and much more.

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Phrases of Plato

  1. The principle is the most important part of the work.
  2. Each heart sings one song, incomplete, until another heart whispers to it. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
  3. True friendship can only exist between equals.
  4. A house that has a library in it, has soul.
  5. Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
  6. Sages speak because they have something to say; The fools because they have to say something.
  7. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, charm and joy to life and to everything.
  8. A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
  9. Necessity is the mother of invention.
  10. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
  11. No wealth can make a bad man at peace with himself.
  12. "Excellence"is not a gift, but a skill that requires practice. We do not act"with reason"because we are"excellent", in fact, we achieve"excellence"acting"rightly".
  13. Man... is a domesticated or civilized animal; However, it requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and thus of all animals, it becomes the most divine and most civilized creature; But if he is insufficient or poorly educated, he is the wildest of earthly creatures.
  14. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; The true tragedy of life is when men are afraid of light. (Phrase learned from his teacher and tutor, Socrates)
  15. You can find out more about a person in an hour of play, than in a year of conversation.
  16. The goal of education is to teach us to love the beautiful.
  17. Be good, because everyone you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
  18. The greatest wealth is living contentedly with little.
  19. Do not train children to learn by force or hardness; Rather lead them to learning by amusing their minds, so that they may be able to discover with exactitude the peculiar inclination of the genius of each.
  20. False words are not only bad in themselves, but infect the soul with evil.
  21. The ultimate penalty for refusing to rule, is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
  22. What if man could see beauty itself, pure, unmixed, stripped of mortality, and all its contamination, stains, vanities, immutable, divine? Man becoming communion in the friend of God, to Itself, immortalâ € | would not that be a life not to ignore?
  23. The society we have described can never become a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the problems of states or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, until philosophers become rulers of this world; Or even what we now call kings and rulers, be real and truly philosophers, and political power and philosophy in this way, be in the same hands.
  24. According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing his power, Zeus divided them into two parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
  25. Love is a serious desire of the mind.
  26. In practice, people who study philosophy for too long become very rare, if not entirely vicious, bugs; While even those who are the best, end up reduced to completing their futility as members of society.
  27. No man should bring children into the world, unless he is willing to persevere to the end his nature and his education.
  28. Never discourage someone who progresses, no matter how slow you go.
  29. I am the wisest living man, because I know one thing, and I do not know anything. (Phrase learned from his teacher and tutor, Socrates).
  30. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way to bypass laws.
  31. Come, then, and spend a free hour in the narrative, and our history will be the education of our heroes.
  32. I have hardly met a mathematician who is capable of reasoning.
  33. Anything that induces error can be said to delight.
  34. Either we find what we are looking for, or at least we free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
  35. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
  36. Death is not the worst that can happen to a man.
  37. Ignorance is the root and trunk of all evils.
  38. There is truth in wine and in children.
  39. It was a wise man who invented God.
  40. Have you ever felt that our soul is immortal and that it never dies?
  41. The first and best victory is to conquer yourself.
  42. I'm trying to think, do not confuse me with facts.
  43. If women are expected to do some work like men, we should teach them the same things.
  44. No human being is of serious importance.
  45. Body exercise, when it is mandatory, does no harm to the body; But the knowledge that is acquired by obligation, finds no sustenance in the mind.
  46. ... And when one of them meets the other half, the real half of himself, regardless of whether he is a lover of youth or a lover of another type, the pair is lost in an astonishment of love, friendship and intimacy and One will not be out of sight of the other, so to speak, even for a moment.
  47. Character is simply a continuous habit over time.
  48. The measure of a man is what he does with his power.
  49. Good deeds give strength to ourselves and inspire the good deeds of others.
  50. How could they see more than shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads? (Excerpt from"The Myth of the Caverns").
  51. Those who tell the story, rule society.
  52. The madness of love is the greatest blessing in heaven.
  53. Human behavior derives from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.
  54. When there is a tax, the fair man will pay more and the unjust less, in the same amount of income.
  55. The soul takes flight to a world that is invisible, but when it arrives at it is assured of happiness and forever dwells in paradise.
  56. You are my star, and my astronomer too; And I wish I were heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you!
  57. Ideas are the origin of all things.
  58. In politics we assume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to manage a city or state. When we are sick... we do not ask about the most handsome, or most eloquent, doctor.
  59. Education is teaching our children to want the right things.
  60. There are three kinds of men: lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
  61. What I really know is the extent of my ignorance.
  62. There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be the most moderate, a kind of desire that is terrible, savage and lawless.
  63. Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, much less believed, by the masses.
  64. When men speak ill of you, live in such a way that no one can believe them.
  65. There are two things a person should never be angry about: what can help him, and what can not.
  66. "That's what education should be,"I said,"the art of orientation. Educators should design the simplest and most effective methods of directing souls around them. It should not be the art of sight implantation in the organ, but should proceed from the understanding that the organ already has the ability but is not well aligned and is not in the right position.
  67. Philosophy is the highest music.
  68. Books are immortal children who defy their parents.
  69. The courage is to know what not to be afraid of.
  70. People are like dirt. They can either nourish and help you to grow as a person, or they can impede your growth and make you wilt and die.
  71. Of all animals, the child is the most difficult to handle.
  72. The soul takes nothing with it to the other world, more than its education and its culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, education and culture can provide the greatest help, or on the contrary, can act as the greatest burden for the person who has just died.
  73. How can we prove if we are not sleeping at this moment, and all our thoughts are a dream; Or if we are awake and talking to each other in a waking state?
  74. You should not honor man more than truth.
  75. Love is born in every human being; Calls back to the halves of our original nature to unite; Try to do one in two and heal the wound of human nature.
  76. The man who finds that in the course of his life has done much evil often awakens at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of apprehension; But the man who is aware that he has done no wrong, is full of joy and lives the comfort of old age.
  77. Musical innovation is fraught with danger to the state, since when the modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them.
  78. An empty container makes a louder sound, so those who have the least wit are the greatest charlatans.
  79. A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is among a thousand, but one realized could not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
  80. Time is the living image of reality.
  81. Love is simply the name for desire and the quest for wholeness.
  82. Writing is the geometry of the soul.
  83. Poetry is closer to the fundamental truth than history.
  84. I would like to teach children music, physics and philosophy; But more importantly, music, as the patterns of music and all arts, are the keys to learning.
  85. ... If a man can correctly say that he loves something, it must be clear that he feels affection for her as a whole, and does not love only part of it, to the exclusion of others.
  86. By this feeling of wondering shows that you are a philosopher, since the question is the only principle of philosophy.
  87. Any man can easily do harm, but not all men can do good to others.
  88. Poets say great and wise things, which they themselves do not understand.
  89. Man is a being in search of meaning.
  90. Everything is flow, nothing is still.
  91. The direction in which a man's education begins, will determine his future life.
  92. Lack of activity destroys the condition of any human being.
  93. He who loves does not take roads in the dark.
  94. Is there a perfect word?
  95. The beauty of style, harmony, grace and good rhythm, depend on simplicity.
  96. The man who does everything that leads to happiness depends on himself, and not on other men; Has adopted the best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, man of manly character and wisdom.
  97. Knowledge is the food of the soul.
  98. Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since his memories always keep him as close as possible to those realities by which the gods are divine.
  99. The man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and flee... A man must wait and not take his own life, until God summon him.
  100. Knowledge becomes bad if the goal is not virtuous.

Plato, Greek philosopher through whom we know the ideas of his Master, Socrates and then develop his own line of thought. Coming from a family of aristocrats and master of a vision of life that would be one of the foundations of our Western thinking.

His dialogues constitute the written legacy he left to humanity, in which he spoke about an infinite number of topics, from the knowledge of nature, its operation and the way we have to understand it, to the most advanced political system (for the time) . Unlike his Master, Plato dedicated part of his life to expressing his thoughts, using not only a style of writing more like a script (dialectic), but also of legends and metaphors. Of all of them, the most famous is"the myth of caverns"(in which he affirms that men look only at the shadows of what reality is, and that in order to"discover"it truly, the only way is reason).

What Plato had in common with his teacher (one of the many) is that, like him, he won many enemies throughout his life, thanks to the development of what he considered as the perfect political model described in" The Republic". Not being heard in Greece, the philosopher traveled to Sicily, with the idea of ​​implementing his project, but neither did he achieve the success he hoped for.

Beyond the failure of this initiative, Plato had many students under his tutelage and, with the intention of teaching in an organized and systematic way, created the Academy (on whose idea the contemporary university cities are based). There he received his most famous pupil, Aristotle, who would develop for himself a kind of evolution of thought that began with Socrates.

The institution of the Academy lasted for almost 100 years, but Plato's philosophy has transcended thousands of years, surpassing also the voices of those who tried to silence him.


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