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.

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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain namely that nothing is certain.

What is spoken of the unchanging or intelligible must be certain and true; but what is spoken of the created image can only be probable; being is to becoming what truth is to belief.

Behold, he said, the wisdom of Socrates; he refuses to teach himself, and goes about learning of others, to whom he never even says Thank you.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

SOCRATES: But you do say that he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general. ION: Certainly.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same.

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.