Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 428 Bc Death: 348 Bc
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things..
The wisest have the most authority..
There is no other start to philosophy but wonder..
The soul should concentrate itself by itself..
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated..
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction..
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict..
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine..
Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right..
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses..
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends..
Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the be….
Democracy passes into despotism..
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person..
All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy..
One man cannot practice many arts with success..
We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must lo….
Courage is a kind of salvation..
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I co….
In an honest man there is always something of a child..
The beginning is half of the whole..