Plato Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• Man is a being in search of meaning.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Vision

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

  Plato

  Philosophical, Eye, Soul

• 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

• In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

  Plato

  Order, Simplicity, Everyday

• 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

• You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

  Plato

  Reality, Mind, Vision

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