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

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

“let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.”

“No god loves knowledge or desire wisdom, for they are already wise; nor does anyone who is wise love wisdom.”

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”

“[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]”

“The media are a criminal organization that uses advanced undiscovered technology to abuse their targets into trapping them do phenomenal crimes that are actually false reality in order to protect the real criminals, those they cover and present to you as innocents.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”

“One is only as smart as the knowledge one acquires.”

“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”

“We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”