Plato Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

  Plato

  Education, Giving, Perfection

• ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

  Plato

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

• Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

  Plato

  Men, Purpose, Upright Man

• The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

  Plato

  Purpose, Deities, Miserable

• Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

  Plato

  Purpose, Noble, Praise

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.475

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