Plato Quotes About Giving

We have collected for you the TOP of Plato's best quotes about Giving! Here are collected all the quotes about Giving starting from the birthday of the Philosopher – 428 BC! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 30 sayings of Plato about Giving. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

  • In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

  • Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

  • If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

  • I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

    Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd
  • Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

    Order  
  • A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

  • As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

    C. D. C. Reeve, Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon (2002). “The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts”, p.44, Hackett Publishing
  • There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

  • And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

    Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”
  • They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

    Republic III.405.D
  • He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

    Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics
  • All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

    Plato (2016). “Laws”, p.315, Xist Publishing
  • Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

    Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.901, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

    Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.352
  • He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

    Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.903, e-artnow
  • [M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

    Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.1535, e-artnow
  • It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

  • The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

  • When two friends 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.

  • I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

    Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.133, Aeterna Press
  • The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

  • So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

  • If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

  • Music gives a soul to the universe.

  • Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

  • For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

    Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). “The banquet (also known as The symposium)”
  • It is right to give every man his due.

  • Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

  • The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Page 1 of 1
Did you find Plato's interesting saying about Giving? We will be glad if you share the quote with your friends on social networks! This page contains Philosopher quotes from Philosopher Plato about Giving collected since 428 BC! Come back to us again – we are constantly replenishing our collection of quotes so that you can always find inspiration by reading a quote from one or another author!

Plato

  • Born: 428 BC
  • Died: 348 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher