Quotes

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

“Ideas are the source of all things”

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

“Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil.”

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”

“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”

“‎Love is a madness produced by an unclassifiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.”

“Love is a serious mental disease.”

“Love is the pursuit of the whole.”

“Not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? What they teach them?”

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”

“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.”

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ”

“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”

“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”

“A life without investigation is not worth living”

“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.”

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”

“All learning has an emotional base.”

“All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can come up with a rational argument for their inclusion in a well-governed community, we'd be delighted -- short of compromising the truth as we see it, which wouldn't be right -- to bring them back from exile: after all, we know from our own experience all about their spell. I mean haven't you ever fallen under the spell of poetry, Glaucon, especially when the spectacle is provided by Homer?”

“Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.”

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

“And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said.

“And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honors of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really had no idea how a eulogy ought to be made. For I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogized, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.”

“And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you should take courage and whatever you do not happen to know, that is to remember, at present, you must endeavor to discover and recollect...I cannot swear to everything I have said in this argument – but one thing I am ready to fight for in word and deed, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we do not know, than if we think we cannot discover it and have no duty to seek it.”

“And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.”

“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.”

“And then, at this stage, every dictator comes up with the notorious and typical demand: he asks the people for bodyguards to protect him, the people's champion.”

“And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: Daniel Coenn
Bildmaterialien: Daniel Coenn
Lektorat: Blago Kirov
Übersetzung: Raia Iotova
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 24.04.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7368-0436-4

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