Plato

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' _x000D_ 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Geometry existed before creation.

Music is a defining element of character.