Plato Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Eye, Soul

• Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

  Plato

  Lying, Eye, Beholder

• When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

  Plato

  Confused, Twilight, Eye

• When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

  Plato

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.228

• Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

  Plato

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.333, Penguin

• It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

  Plato

  Eye, Soul, Geometry

• ...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

  Plato

  Eye, Men, Soul

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.26, University Press of America

• The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

  Plato

  Eye, Light, Darkness

  Republic, bk.7, 518c (translated by G M A Grube, revised by C D C Reeve).

• Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

  Plato

  Beauty, Eye, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.107, Penguin

• A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

  Plato

  Confused, Eye, Men

• You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

  Plato

  Eye, Soul, Body

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.11

• In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Plato, Eye

• In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.

  Plato

  Believe, Eye, Men

• As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

  Plato

  Eye, Wind, Wings

• For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

  Plato

  Eye, Evil, Soul

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.52, Booklassic

• Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

  Plato

  Eye, Giving, Conversion

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.352

• Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

  Plato

  Stars, Eye, Heaven

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