Plato Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

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

  Plato

  Truth, Attitude, Lying

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

• Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

  Plato

  Lying, Thinking, Shadow

• Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

  Plato

  Lying, Philosophical, Liberty

• Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

  Plato

  Lying, Eye, Beholder

• As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

  Plato

  Lying, Stones, Wells

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.415

• Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

  Plato

  Plato, Lying, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.223, Penguin

• Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

  Plato

  Lying, Ignorance, Doe

• To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

  Plato

  Plato, Lying, Enemy

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.80

• The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

  Plato

  Self Esteem, Lying, Pride

  Plato (1984). “Laws”

• The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

  Plato

  Lying, Home, May

  Plato (1873). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.211

• 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.

  Plato

  Life, Lying, Mean

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