To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of th….
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or ….
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understandin….
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men..
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it..
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself..
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato..
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous ….
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments..
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth..
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, w….
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young..
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas..
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of t….
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence..
Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind whi….
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such….
Plato's world of ideas is beautiful..
Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and wh….
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into….
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beaut….