Life Plato Quotes

#1. The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Plato

#2. The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

John Desmond Bernal

#3. The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.

Plato

#4. We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~Plato~

S.S. Segran

#5. The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre ... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

Plato

#6. Life must be lived as play.

Plato

#7. Why do people do this?'
'Blog, you mean? I don't know ... didn't someone once say the unexamined life isn't worth living?'
'Yeah, Plato,' said Strike, 'but this isn't examining a life, it's exhibiting it.

Robert Galbraith

#8. Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.

Plato

#9. Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

Plato

#10. For philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.

Plato

#11. It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Plato

#12. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato

#13. And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?

Plato

#14. Then who is more miserable? One of whom I am about to speak. Who is that? He who is of a tyrannical nature, and instead of leading a private life has been cursed with the further misfortune of being a public tyrant. From

Plato

#15. Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

Plato

#16. Ideas are the source of all things

Plato

#17. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

#18. Life should be lived as play.

Plato

#19. 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

#20. From all these, then, they will be finally free, and they will live a happier life than that men count most happy, the life of victors at Olympia.

Plato

#21. Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy ... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

Plato

#22. What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world of appearances toward things as they really are, and you wonder if it is possible to change in this life. Being with a philosopher makes you think.

Jay McInerney

#24. For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Plato

#25. It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.

Plato

#26. As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Plato

#27. The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

Plato

#28. Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.

Plato

#29. Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

#30. By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

Jeremy Collier

#31. A life without investigation is not worth living

Plato

#32. There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?

Plato

#33. Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Plato

#34. Homosexuality and trance were considered abnormalities now, while in the Middle Ages people had been made saints for their trances, which were considered the highest state of being, and in Ancient Greece, as Plato makes clear, homosexuality was 'a major means to the good life.

Lily King

#35. From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

Marcus Aurelius

#36. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plato

#37. There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.

Plato

#38. The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life ... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

Plato

#39. They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Plato

#40. Our greatest battles lie deep within our own psyches as we face fear, insecurity, and self-doubt. These internal adversaries pose a far greater threat to our lives and our well-being than the external difficulties of daily life. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

Dan Millman

#41. Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Plato

#42. Above, in discussing the perceptive notions of Jesus, remarkable concepts of Plato or the highly introspective lessons of Gautama and Lao Tzu, it took considerable discussion to explore the meaning and relate it to How Life Works. Islam presents no such deep pool of thought to pierce.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#43. The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Plato

#44. The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through
our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what
Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict
on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life ...

Virginia Woolf

#45. In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Plato

#46. The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Plato

#47. To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

Plato

#48. Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

Huston Smith

#49. Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato has had the greatest influence.

Plato

#50. The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Plato

#51. Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato

#52. Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Rebecca Goldstein

#53. Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c.

Plato

#54. To Aristotle or to Plato the State is, above all, a large and powerful educative agency which gives the individual increased opportunities of self-development and greater capacities for the enjoyment of life.

Aristotle.

#55. Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.

Plato

#56. The supreme good - to examine everything - a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO

Alexandra Stoddard

#57. Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Kurt Vonnegut

#58. The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#59. Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

#60. It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Plato

#61. We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#62. The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

Plato

#63. No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

#64. Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

#65. The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

Plato

#66. An over examination of life can deter you from life itself

Ilyas Kassam

#67. What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

Plato

#68. Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Plato

#69. A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Ann Plato

#70. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

#71. It's not from money that excellence comes, but from excellence money and the other things, all of them, come to be good for human beings, whether in private or in public life.

Plato

#72. Star of my life, to the stars your face is turned;
Would I were the heavens, looking back at you with ten thousand eyes.

Plato

#73. He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

Plato

#74. Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Plato

#75. Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Plato

#76. Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Tom Robbins

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

Plato

#78. Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible ... For this is the way of happiness.

Plato

#79. But most people are content with a life among shadows. They give no thought to what is casting the shadows. They think shadows are all there are, never realizing even that they are, in fact, shadows. And thus they pay no heed to the immortality of their own soul.

Jostein Gaarder

#80. The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

Elaine Scarry

#81. No man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time

Plato

#82. A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

Plato

#83. The most important thing is not life, but the good life.

Plato

#84. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Plato

#85. C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.

Frederick Lenz

#86. If you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.

Plato

#87. The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Plato

#88. anarchy should have no place in the life of man or of the beasts who are subject to man.

Plato

#89. The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a
midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Plato

#90. What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine, ... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal; ... would that be a life to disregard?

Plato

#91. Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

Plato

#92. I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

Plato

#93. But whether the just have a better and happier life than the unjust is a further question which we also proposed to consider.

Plato

#94. I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

Plato

#95. The unexplored life is not worth living!

Plato

#96. The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato's unexamined life, is not worth living.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

#97. No human thing is of serious importance.

Plato

#98. You must contrive for your future rulers another and a better life than that of a ruler, and then you may have a well-ordered State; for only in the State which offers this, will they rule who are truly rich, not in silver and gold, but in virtue and wisdom, which are the true blessings of life.

Plato

#99. That not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Plato