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Plato Inspirational Quotes (557)

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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 beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.
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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
Plato
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
Ann Plato
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To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Ann Plato
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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.
Plato
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In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.
Viacheslav Platonov
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Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.
Viacheslav Platonov
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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
Plato
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Science is nothing but perception.
Plato
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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.
Plato
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I have a trend of my own.
Andrei Platonov
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I lived and languished.
Andrei Platonov
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When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
Andrei Platonov
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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov
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Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
Andrei Platonov
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What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
Andrei Platonov
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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
Plato
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The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
Plato
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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
Plato
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
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Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.
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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
Plato
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