Famous Plato Quotes

  • What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there. – Plato

    What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.– Plato

  • He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act – Plato

    He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act– Plato

  • And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route. – Plato

    And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.– Plato

  • Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time. – Plato

    Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.– Plato

  • A dog has the soul of a philosopher. – Plato

    A dog has the soul of a philosopher.– Plato

  • Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. – Plato

    Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.– Plato

  • The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs. – Plato

    The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.– Plato

  • No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes. – Plato

    No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.– Plato

  • Light is the shadow of god – Plato

    Light is the shadow of god– Plato

  • But I don’t think we shall quarrel about a word – the subject of our inquiry is too important for that. – Plato

    But I don’t think we shall quarrel about a word – the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.– Plato