Plato Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Feelings

• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

• For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

  Plato

  Life, Philosophy, Feelings

  Plato, Robert Gregg Bury (1921). “Plato”

• Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

  Plato

  Powerful, Philosophy, Gay

• The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophy, Drinking

• Philosophy is the highest music.

  Plato

  Music, Wisdom, Plato

  Plato (2016). “Apology Of Socrates And Crito”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

• The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Life Is, Life Worth Living

  Apology, 38a (translated by H Tredennick).

• Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Math, Soul

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.7552, Catholic Way Publishing

• Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

  Plato

  Kings, Philosophy, Men

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.5914, Catholic Way Publishing

• ...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

• Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Affection

  Plato, Henry Cary, Rev. Henry Davis (M.A.), George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.385

• Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

  Plato

  Kings, Plato, Philosophy

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.206, First Avenue Editions

• As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

  Plato

  Giving Up, Philosophy, Long

  C. D. C. Reeve, Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon (2002). “The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

• One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

• All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

  Plato

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

• ...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Political, Words Of Wisdom

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

• Philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato

  Education, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Plato, Seth Benardete (1986). “Plato's Theaetetus: Part I of The Being of the Beautiful”, University of Chicago Press

• Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Men, Practice

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

• Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophy, Becoming

• That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (1921). “Theaetetus, Sophist”

• Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

  Plato

  Art, Stars, Philosophy

• I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

  Plato

  Sorry, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

• What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Real, Twilight

• God is a geometrician.

  Plato

  God, Art, Philosophy

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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