And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Votes: 14
Philosophy is the highest music. Votes: 10
Knowledge is true opinion. Votes: 1
Love is a serious mental disease. Votes: 0
Philosophy begins in wonder. Votes: 0
Courage is knowing what not to fear. Votes: 0
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Votes: 0
Si vis pacem, para bellum Votes: 0
A dog has the soul of a philosopher. Votes: 0
Pleasure is the bait of sin Votes: 0
He was a wise man who invented beer. Votes: 0
This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit. Votes: 0
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. Votes: 0
Even the gods love jokes. Votes: 0
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. Votes: 0
Love is a severe mental disorder. Votes: 0
Through obedience learn to command. Votes: 0
The wisest have the most authority. Votes: 0
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. Votes: 0
[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. Votes: 0
Ideas are the source of all things Votes: 0
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE) Votes: 0
Knowledge is the food of the soul. Votes: 0
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something. Votes: 0
Courage is a kind of salvation. Votes: 0
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Votes: 0
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year. Votes: 0
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Votes: 0
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful. Votes: 0
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Votes: 0
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. Votes: 0
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Votes: 0
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Votes: 0
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Votes: 0
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. Votes: 0
Democracy passes into despotism. Votes: 0
...the Gods too love a joke. Votes: 0
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction. Votes: 0
A work well begun is half-ended. Votes: 0
Adultery is the injury of nature. Votes: 0
All knowledge is but remembrance. Votes: 0
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue. Votes: 0
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases. Votes: 0
Any peace is better than any war Votes: 0
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas. Votes: 0
Beauty is a natural superiority. Votes: 0
Courage is knowing what to fear. Votes: 0
Do thine own work, and know thyself. Votes: 0
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own. Votes: 0
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. Votes: 0
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. Votes: 0
Excellent things are rare. Votes: 0
Geometry existed before creation. Votes: 0
God ever geometrizes. Votes: 0
God forever geometrizes. Votes: 0
God is a geometrician. Votes: 0
God is truth and light his shadow. Votes: 0
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act Votes: 0
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others. Votes: 0
Ignorance: the root of all evil. Votes: 0
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort. Votes: 0
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. Votes: 0
Let brother help brother. Votes: 0
Life should be lived as play. Votes: 0
Love is a grave mental illness. Votes: 0
Love is the pursuit of the whole. Votes: 0
Love: a grave mental disease. Votes: 0
Man is a being in search of meaning. Votes: 0
Man is a biped without feathers. Votes: 0
Man was not made for himself alone Votes: 0
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. Votes: 0
Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you. Votes: 0
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge. Votes: 0
Music gives a soul to the universe. Votes: 0
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. Votes: 0
No one can escape his destiny. Votes: 0
No one ever dies an atheist..... Votes: 0
No soul willfully does wrong. Votes: 0
Our need will be the real creator. Votes: 0
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires. Votes: 0
Putting the shoe on the wrong foot. Votes: 0
Science is nothing but perception. Votes: 0
Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls. Votes: 0
The beginning is half of the whole. Votes: 0
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. Votes: 0
The god is the beautiful. Votes: 0
The good is the beautiful. Votes: 0
The proud man is forsaken of God. Votes: 0
There is truth in wine and children Votes: 0
Truth is its own reward. Votes: 0
We become what we contemplate. Votes: 0
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful. Votes: 0
Wine fills the heart with courage. Votes: 0
Writing is the geometry of the soul. Votes: 0
You must base the Wisdom on Love. Votes: 0
You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from? Votes: 0
Your dog is your only philosopher. Votes: 0
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it. Votes: 0