Quotes About Death Plato

#1. Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.

Ursula Tillmann

#2. A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Marjane Satrapi

#3. Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

#4. We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Plato

#5. Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Plato

#6. Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Plato

#7. I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

Plato

#8. And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

Plato

#9. Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', I CAN handle the truth.

Michael J. Fox

#10. 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

#11. No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Plato

#12. For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Plato

#13. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Plato

#14. [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville

#15. I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

Wendy Davis

#16. 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

#17. I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

Rob Lowe

#18. I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Jack Kevorkian

#19. The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

Plato

#20. The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Plato

#21. Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you ... for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Plato

#23. Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?

Plato

#24. Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Plato

#25. Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

Orlando Bloom

#26. The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

Mae Jemison

#27. [T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Plato

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

Plato

#29. To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Joseph Heller

#30. I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Sid Vicious

#31. If she couldn't carve out a place for herself in Izman, what hope was I going to have?

Alwyn Hamilton

#32. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.

Plato

#33. It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.

Plato

#34. If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

Jamie Oliver

#35. Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

Plato

#36. Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

Plato