Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy..
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge..
The beginning is the chiefest part of any work..
I prefer nothing, unless it is true..
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own..
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned..
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 ….
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant..
The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging..
I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them..
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics..
Music is to the mind as air is to the body..
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the ….
When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of ….
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the h….
Everything changes and nothing remains still..
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind..
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man..
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they dese….
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and….