Plato — Philosophical Quotes

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Plato Quotes

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Plato

Philosopher

Philosophical

“That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.”

Helping Opinion Becoming

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Plato

Philosopher

Philosophical

“Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.”

People Knowledge Pleasure

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Philosophical

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

Wisdom Music

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Philosophical

“Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.”

Plato

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Philosophical

“You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.”

Remember Deluge

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“... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.”

Political Politics

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“It is impossible to conceive of many without one.”

Impossible

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“To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.”

World Soul Evil

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“For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.”

Thinking Looks Soul

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Philosophical

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”

Men Inspirational Plato

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Philosophical

“They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.”

Way Law Tyrants

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“As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.”

Men Ideas

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