Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city..
Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that….
In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell..
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?.
Is virtue something that can be taught?.
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises ….
I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word..
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing ….
Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body..
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue..
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned..
Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift..
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to sp….
Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child….
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessi….
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human..
May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ..
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..
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic..
I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round a….
Man is a biped without feathers..