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Plato Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“Do you think someone is a worse painter if, having painted a model of what the finest and most beautiful human being would be like and having rendered every detail of his picture adequately, he could not prove that such a man could come into being?”
— Plato, The Republic
Tagged: Ideals, Implementing Dreams
“We once believed ourselves to understand it, but are now in difficulty.”
— Plato, The Sophist
Tagged: The Clearing, Socrates Thesis, You Know Nothing, Philosophical
“Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.”
— Plato, Laws
Tagged: Education, Ignorance, Knowledge, School, Parenthood, Philosophy
“Every one of us is like a man who sees things in a dream and thinks that he knows them perfectly and then wakes up to find that he knows nothing.”
— Plato, The Life of the Mind: Vols 1&2
Tagged: You Know Nothing, Ex-formation, Socrates Thesis, (EX)Formation, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I have a favor to ask of the judges. When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have trouble you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing—then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking they are something when they are really nothing. And if you do this both I and my sons will have received just at your hands.”
— Socrates, Plato, Socrates' Apology
Tagged: Life
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