24261 | Devotion to learning and applied intelligence leads to divine wisdom - if truth is available [Plato] |
24224 | An unexamined life is not worth living. [Plato] |
24226 | The soul on its own enters a pure, unchanging and eternal realm, and experiences wisdom [Plato] |
24250 | We should not pick out 'this' water, but only 'something of this sort' [Plato] |
24232 | Truth is speaking what is and things that are [Plato] |
24233 | If speech is making something, then lies are impossible [Plato] |
24246 | The sun was made for light, so we could learn numbers from astronomical movement [Plato] |
24230 | The Forms arise whenever we talk of something 'in itself'. [Plato] |
24225 | Things like the Equal and the Beautiful, which are real, must be unchanging [Plato] |
24229 | The true reality is organised and harmonised in a rational order [Plato] |
24227 | One and one can only become two by sharing in Twoness [Plato] |
24228 | Believers in the beautiful see that it is separate from things that participate in it [Plato] |
24254 | Two existing entities can never strictly coincide [Plato] |
24236 | Some statements about what is obvious and stable are as irrefutable as possible [Plato] |
24252 | Knowledge is taught, has logos, is unshakeable, and is rare [Plato] |
24251 | If knowledge is just true belief, we are forced to rely on the senses [Plato] |
24244 | The soul is a complex mixture of pure mind and changing matter [Plato] |
24258 | The gods placed the mortal soul in the chest [Plato] |
24240 | Intelligence requires soul [Plato] |
24241 | Beauty must always be perfect [Plato] |
24260 | The best part of the soul raises us up to the heavens, to which we are naturally akin [Plato] |
24259 | Death in old age is a natural end, untroubled, and more pleasure than distress [Plato] |
24239 | Perfect goodness always produces perfect beauty [Plato] |
24223 | Admirable people are happy, and unjust people are miserable [Plato] |
24257 | Unnatural modifications are painful, and restoring normality is pleasant [Plato] |
24234 | I have discussed the best constitution, and the kind of citizens it requires [Plato] |
24235 | Female Guardians will have identical duties to the men [Plato] |
24248 | The god said human nature comes as the superior male, and inferior female [Plato] |
24249 | The elements seem able to transmute into each other [Plato] |
24231 | The One is timeless, has no being or identity, and cannot be known [Plato] |
24243 | The world-maker used the four elements and their properties in entirety [Plato] |
24255 | Motion needs differing moved and mover, so it originates in diversity [Plato] |
24256 | The spherical universe composed of four elements squeezes out every bit of void [Plato] |
24253 | Space is eternal and indestructible, but is only known by barely credible reasoning [Plato] |
24245 | The god created eternity in the sequence of the universe, and its image we call 'time' [Plato] |
24222 | If we ignore all our thoughts of the past and the future, there is nothing left of the present [Weil] |
24238 | The god found chaos, and led it to superior order [Plato] |
24242 | Is there a plurality (or even an infinity) of universes? No, because the model makes it unique [Plato] |
24247 | The universe has four types of living being: gods, birds, fish, and land animals [Plato] |
24237 | The divine organiser of the world wanted it to have as little imperfection as possible [Plato] |