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1 " Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. "
― Plato
2 " Love is a serious mental disease. "
― Plato , Phaedrus
3 " ...and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment... "
― Plato , The Symposium
4 " You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you! "
5 " Know thyself. "
6 " Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. "
7 " The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. "
8 " Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. "
9 " One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "
10 " In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one. "
11 " Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. "
― Plato , Essential Thinkers - Socrates
12 " False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. "
13 " Philosophy is the highest music. "
14 " In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society. "
― Plato , The Republic
15 " How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads? "
― Plato , The Allegory of the Cave
16 " Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul. "
17 " The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity. "
18 " For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy. "
― Plato , Theaetetus
19 " Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine. "
20 " let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly. "
― Plato , Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.
