“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.” 

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.” 

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ” 

“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning” 

“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ” 

“Love is the pursuit of the whole.” 

“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.” 

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.” 

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.” 

“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.” 

Nothing beautiful without struggle.” 

“The first and best victory is to conquer self” 

“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates” 

“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?” 

“Books are immortal sons defying their sires.” 

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” 

“True friendship can exist only between equals.” 

“Man is a being in search of meaning.” 

“And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.” 

“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.” 

“For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.” 

“Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.” 

“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.” 

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself” 

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.” 

“No human thing is of serious importance.” 

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” 

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” 

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” 

“He was a wise man who invented God.” 

“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance” 

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” 

“All is flux, nothing stays still” 

“He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.” 

“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.” 

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.” 

“what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be a life to disregard?” 

“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.” 

“The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.” 

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” 

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.” 

“He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.” 

“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.” 

“a life without investigation is not worth living” 

“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty” 

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.” 

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” 

“Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.” 

“All learning has an emotional base.” 

“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.”