100+ Plato's famous Quotes On Demoracy and Human behavior

Plato famous quotes 

1. "The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

2. "Wisdom begins in wonder."

3. "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

4. "The beginning is the most important part of the work."

5. "Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."

6. "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

7. "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

8. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

9. "Those who tell the stories rule society."

10. "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."

11. "Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns."

12. "Courage is knowing what not to fear."

13. "Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

14. "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

15. "Necessity is the mother of invention."

16. "The measure of a man is what he does with power."

17. "An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers."

18. "He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

19. "The first and best victory is to conquer self."

20. "He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

21. "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."

22. "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."

23. "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

24. "He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."

25. "We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

26. "Love is a serious mental disease."

27. "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."

28. "Ideas are the source of all things."

29. "There is no harm in repeating a good thing."

30. "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

31. "The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture."

32. "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

33. "Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds."

34. "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

35. "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

36. "Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

37. "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

38. "Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses."

39. "We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

40. "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

41. "The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

42. "There is truth in wine and children."

43. "He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

44. "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

45. "The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

46. "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

47. "No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."

48. "There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless."

49. "Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance."

50. "Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being."

 Plato famous quotes On Democracy

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."

"Democracy passes into despotism."

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

"The excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."

"The democratic man lives along day by day, indulging the pleasure of the moment. He is sometimes full of drink and loudly claims that this is the only proper way to live; at other times he is starving himself."

"The people have always 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."

"Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections."

Plato's Quotes about Human behavior

1. "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

2. "The first and best victory is to conquer self."

3. "He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

4. "The measure of a man is what he does with power."

5. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

6. "An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers."

7. "Courage is knowing what not to fear."

8. "Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."

9. "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

10. "He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

11. "Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

12. "There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless."

13. "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."

14. "The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

15. "Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance."

16. "Love is a serious mental disease."

17. "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."

18. "The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture."

Plato's Famous quotes on politics

1. "The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."

2. "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

3. "There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."

4. "Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

5. "The measure of a man is what he does with power."

6. "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

7. "Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns."

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

9. "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

10. "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

11. "He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."

12. "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."

Plato's Philosophy on success

1. "The first and best victory is to conquer self."

2. "The measure of a man is what he does with power."

3. "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

4. "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

5. "Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly."

6. "The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

7. "He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

8. "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

9. "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

10. "Courage is knowing what not to fear."

11. "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

12. "Wisdom begins in wonder."

Platos Best quotes on reality

1. "Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind."

2. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

3. "Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

4. "The world of our sight is like the habitation in prison, the firelight there to the sunlight here, the ascent and the sight of the upper world is the rising of the soul into the world of the mind."

5. "The objects that are seen are not real, but the objects that are unseen are real."

6. "Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses."

7. "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

8. "The world is divided into two classes: those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."

9. "An unexamined life is not worth living."

Plato Quotes on the soul

1. "The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture."

2. "The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."

3. "The soul is the true self."

4. "The soul through all her being is immortal, for that which is ever in motion is immortal; but that which moves another and is moved by another, in ceasing to move ceases also to live."

5. "The body is the prison of the soul."

6. "The soul of man is divided into three parts, the intelligent, the high-spirited, and the appetitive."

7. "Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."

8. "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

9. "The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."

10. "The soul of the individual is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendor have no limit."

Plato's insights on Life

1. "The unexamined life is not worth living."

2. "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

3. "The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

4. "Wisdom begins in wonder."

5. "Courage is knowing what not to fear."

6. "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

7. "The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

8. "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."

9. "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

10. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

11. "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

12. "An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers."

13. "Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."

14. "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

15. "He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."

Plato's Quotes on love 

1. "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

2. "Love is a serious mental disease."

3. "The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

4. "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."

5. "Love is the pursuit of the whole."

6. "He whom love touches not walks in darkness."

7. "Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."

8. "Love is a great spirit. Everything in love is on the verge of being mystical."

9. "Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

10. "Love, if taken to excess, brings a man no honor nor worthiness."

11. "The love of the soul is the true love, for physical beauty is nothing but an image of the soul."

12. "The love of the wise for the wise, of the brave for the brave, of the just for the just, and of the good for the good is the greatest love."

13. "Love is the desire for the perpetual possession of the good."