Quotes from Plato

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

Love - a grave mental disease.

You're my Star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were Heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you!

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Knowledge is true opinion.

I have this tattooed on my left side! I love the saying and it's a perfect description of Karma, don't judge/discriminate and don't do to someone what you wouldn't want done to you.

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.