Plato Quotes

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ? Plato

Socrates: The body has no part in the communion of the divine and pure and simple (Phaedo)

Athenian Stranger: The soul is the first origin and moving power of all that is (Laws)

Timaeus: The deeds of the best could never be or have been other than the fairest (Timaeus)

Only small and mean natures are bent upon seizing power for themselves, natures that know nothing of goodness and justice (7thletter)

Protesters against my 'elitism' in Harvard Yard! I opened my Academy to any who met requirements. Has Harvard open admissions?

Socrates: When I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I felt I ought to be careful not lose the eye of my soul (Phaedo)

Soc.: there is no difficulty in a man's winning applause when he is contending for fame among the persons whom he is praising (Menexenus)

Socrates: All revolutions turn on the spindle of Necessity (Statesman)

Eleatic Stranger: The Sophist is the money-making species of the Eristic, disputatious, pugnacious, combative, acquisitive family (Sophist)

I've had to summon my inner Socrates.But I've done THAT before.

Socrates: We look not at what we are seeking, but at what is far off in the distance - we then miss what we have in our hands (Statesman)

Socrates: How can a man understand the name of anything, when be does not know the nature of it? (Theaetetus)

Socrates: Sophists can refute any proposition, whether true or false (Euthydemus)

Soc. And the temperate are also good? Ch. Yes. Soc. And can that be good which does not make men good? Ch. Certainly not. (Charmides)

Echecrates: Were you yourself, Phaedo, in the prison with Socrates on the day when he drank the poison? (Phaedo)

Socrates: Of all questions, those respecting good and evil are the greatest (Republic)

Socrates: In things of which we have no understanding, no one will trust us to do as seems good to us, in fact, they will hinder us (Lysis)

Timaeus: Everything that becomes or is created must of necessity be created by some cause without a cause nothing can be created (Timaeus)