Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Learning occurs in the mind, independent of time and place.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

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

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.

Plato was a bore.

Even the gods love jokes.

Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The wisest have the most authority.

Life must be lived as play.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Reverend Brown Girl, you look so good, someone ought to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

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.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul Plato

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Well sometimes i feel like an old piece of steak, precariously placed on a conspicuous plate at a pot-luck for a bunch of young vegans..

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.