Plato Philosopher Quotations

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Your dog is your only philosopher.