Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
-- Plato
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
-- Plato
Love is a grave mental disease.
-- Plato
No evil can happen to a good man.
-- Plato
A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers. It was clearly platoonic.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours
which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
Plato, The Republic. Book X. 601B
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
-- Plato
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of
the matter about which he is to speak?
-- Plato
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic. Book II. 369C
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge
which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 536
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
-- Plato
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
-- Plato
Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and
disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato, The Republic. Book VIII. 558
A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers. It was clearly platoonic.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
-- Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to
another.
Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 529
Uncontrolled power will turn even saints into savages. And we can all
be counted on to live down to our lowest impulses.
-- Parmen, "Plato's Stepchildren", stardate 5784.3
The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the
whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting
the most important political institutions. ... The new style, gradually
gaining a lodgement, quitely insinuates itself into manners and customs,
and from it ... goes on to attack laws and constitutions, displaying the
utmost impudence, until it ends by overturning everything.
-- Plato, "Republic", 370 B.C.
The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the
whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting
the most important political institutions. ... The new style, gradually
gaining a lodgement, quitely insinuates itself into manners and customs,
and from it ... goes on to attack laws and constitutions, displaying the
utmost impudence, until it ends by overturning everything.
-- Plato, "Republic", 370 B.C.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
-- Plato
No evil can happen to a good man.
-- Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
For as there are misanthropists, or hates, there are also misologists, or
haters of ideas, and both springs from the same cause, which is ignorance of
the world.
-- Plato (428 - 348 BC), Phaedo
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the
pleasure and charm of conversation.
-- Plato
Police up your spare rounds and frags. Don't leave nothin' for the dinks.
- Willem Dafoe in "Platoon"
“We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in
the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to
know what we do not know.”
-- Plato
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure
and charm of conversation.
-- Plato
STICKING TOGETHER
A golf pro was helping this attractive young woman with her swing when his zipper got caught in the rhinestones on the back of her skirt. Needless to say this was embarrassing to both of them since their relationship had been purely platonic up to that point anyway. They decided to walk together in this lock-step back to the clubhouse where certainly a pair of needle-nosed pliers would fix the problem. Just as they turned the corner to the clubhouse a Golden Retriever ran up and threw a bucket of water on them.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our
thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another
in the waking state?
-- Plato
Astronomy compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to
another.
-- Plato
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
-- Plato