Plato Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”

“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”

“Necessity... the mother of invention.”

“The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.”

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

“Science is nothing but perception.”

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”