Plato Beautiful Quotations

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

The good is the beautiful.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

The god is the beautiful.

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.