Quotes By Author: Plato

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

“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.”

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

“Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.”

“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”

“Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.”

“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

“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.”

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.”

“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?”

“You should not honor men more than truth.”

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”