Quote

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Philosophers
Philosopher
Kings
State
Happy
States
Would

More quotes by Plato

Image
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
Plato
Image
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Plato
Image
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
Plato
Image
The god is the beautiful.
Plato
Image
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
Plato
Image
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
Plato
Image
Geometry existed before creation.
Plato
Image
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with
Plato
Image
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
Plato
Image
When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
Plato
Image
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
Plato
Image
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
Plato
Image
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
Plato
Image
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
Plato
Image
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
Plato
Image
He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
Plato
Image
And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
Plato
Image
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato