Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of b….
That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so..
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good..
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment..
Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the ….
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters..
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all..
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life..
Philosophy begins in wonder..
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back..
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed..
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….
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants.
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality..
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conver….
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern..
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt..
We become what we contemplate..
Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor bea….
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds a….