Quote

The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Holy
Grace
Graces
Sought
Found
Search
Soul
Ground
Ever
Sight
Whose
Please

More quotes by Plato

Image
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
Plato
Image
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
Plato
Image
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
Plato
Image
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato
Image
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
Plato
Image
It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
Plato
Image
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
Image
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Plato
Image
More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.
Plato
Image
Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
Plato
Image
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
Plato
Image
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
Plato
Image
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
Plato
Image
An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
Plato
Image
As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
Plato
Image
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
Plato
Image
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
Plato
Image
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
Plato
Image
In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
Plato
Image
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
Plato