Plato Quotes About Blessings

Quotes about: Blessings

• Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

  Plato

  Art, Blessing, Men

• No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

  Plato

  Death, Blessing, Men

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

• Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

  Plato

  Blessing, Way, Madness

• Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

  Plato

  Inspiration, Men, Blessing

• No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

  Plato

  Blessing, Men, Evil

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin