TOP 70+ Plato Quotes part 6 of 6 | Truth and Reality | Ancient Greek Philosopher

Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe;Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn, pronounced [plá.tɔːn] in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher, writer, teacher, public speaker, and Socrates's most brilliant student. 

He was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle.

Plato's Quotes:

1. "Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."


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


3. "Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."


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


5. "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."


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


7. "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."


8. "Wealth, and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."


9. "When two friends, like you and me, are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By ‘more dialectical’, I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows."

Prev || Next

TOP 70+ Plato Quotes:

part 1: Love Quotes

part 2: Life and Humanity

part 3: Quotes on Wisdom

part 4: Education and Knowledge

part 5: Thinking and Act Courageously

part 6: Truth and Reality