Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Plato
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Evil
Desire
Feels
Herein
Good
Nevertheless
Satisfied
Neither
Ignorance
Wise
More quotes by Plato
God is truth and light his shadow.
Plato
Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
Plato
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.
Plato
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
Plato
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
Plato
If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.
Plato
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
Plato
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
Plato
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Plato
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
Plato
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.
Plato
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
Plato
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
Plato
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
Plato
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
Plato
We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.
Plato
