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„Love is a serious mental disease. “
„Only the dead have seen the end of war.“
„We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.“
„As you hope to prove your own great value to the state, and having proved it, to attain at once to absolute power, so do I indulge a hope that I shall be the supreme power over you, if I am able to prove my own great value to you.“
„But if with your mind’s eye you regard the absolute great and these many great things in the same way, will not another great appear beyond, by which all these must appear to be great?“
„It is impossible to conceive of many without one.“
„Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.“
„You want to know whether I can make a long speech, such as you are in the habit of hearing; but that is not my way.“
„After much effort, as names, definitions, sights, and other data of sense, are brought into contact and friction one with another, in the course of scrutiny and kindly testing by men who proceed by question and answer without ill will, with a sudden flash there shines forth understanding about every problem, and an intelligence whose efforts reach the furthest limits of human powers.“
„The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are.“
„All that is said by any of us can only be imitation and representation.“
„There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.“
„It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.“
„Successful people never worry about what others are doing.“
„For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet“
„No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.“
„Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they’re unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who’ve had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people’s property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.“
„Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.“
„Beauty is the splendor of truth.“
„Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they would like to say something. As empty vessels make the loudest sounds, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.“
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