“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.”
— Plato“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
— Plato“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
— Plato“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“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
— Plato“The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.”
— Plato“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.”
— Plato“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”
— Plato“Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.”
— Plato“He was a wise man who invented God.”
— Plato“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
— PlatoNo one can be trusted absolutely; even the best of men can deceive.
— Plato