Quote

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Guardians
Guardian
Economics
Rule
Watches
Watch
Wise
Emasculation

More quotes by Plato

Image
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
Plato
Image
Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.
Plato
Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.
Plato
Image
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Plato
Image
There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.
Plato
Image
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Plato
Image
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.
Plato
Image
You cannot go into the same water twice.
Plato
Image
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
Image
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
Plato
Image
For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.
Plato
Image
If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
Plato
Image
The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.
Plato
Image
As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
Plato
Image
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
Plato
Image
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
Plato
Image
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
Plato
Image
It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?
Plato
Image
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
Image
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato