Plato

About

Picture of Plato

Plato ( PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period.

Quotes from Plato

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

More about this quote

Tags:

love beauty discipline

Permalink for this quote

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

More about this quote

Tags:

war death

Permalink for this quote

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

More about this quote

Tags:

soul disease body doctors treatment

Permalink for this quote

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

More about this quote

Tags:

truth history poetry

Permalink for this quote

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

More about this quote

Tags:

knowledge decisions data deciding numbers

Permalink for this quote

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

More about this quote

Tags:

wonder love gods good joy

Permalink for this quote

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

More about this quote

Tags:

work starting

Permalink for this quote

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

More about this quote

Tags:

foolishness speech talking

Permalink for this quote

Man - a being in search of meaning.

More about this quote

Tags:

humanity purpose meaning

Permalink for this quote

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

More about this quote

Tags:

body

Permalink for this quote

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

More about this quote

Tags:

conversation play

Permalink for this quote

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

More about this quote

Tags:

evil

Permalink for this quote

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

More about this quote

Tags:

ignorance

Permalink for this quote

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

More about this quote

Tags:

immortality

Permalink for this quote

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

More about this quote

Tags:

lies

Permalink for this quote

1
2
›