Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Another
Thoughts
Dream
Sleep
States
State
Ideas
Talking
Sleeping
Whether
Waking
Moment
Awake
Inspirational
Philosophical
Moments
Prove
More quotes by Plato
For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
Plato
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
Plato
He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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 information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.
Plato
The race of the guardians must be kept pure.
Plato
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Plato
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
Plato
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers
Plato
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Plato
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
Plato
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
Plato
When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
Plato
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
You must base the Wisdom on Love.
Plato
To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.
Plato
Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
Plato
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.
Plato
