Philosophy Quote by Plato — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]”

“Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.”

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.”

“O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.”

“If they either do not exist (gods), or do not concern themselves with the affairs of men, why need we concern ourselves to evade their observation?”

“Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. - Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind,”

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”

“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.”