Quotes 81 till 100 of 117.
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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
Phaedrus -
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929) -
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
Phaedrus -
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
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Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
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