For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Science is nothing but perception.
Knowledge is true opinion.
For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The good is the beautiful.
Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Excellent things are rare.
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, a...
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.