{"author":"Plato","author_id":"Plato","total_quotes":260,"quotes":[{"text":"They certainly give very strange names to diseases.","author":"Plato","tags":["strange","names","give "],"id":4382,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ","author":"Plato","tags":["darkness","dishonesty","fear","light","willful-ignorance"],"id":7475,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"... When someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.","author":"Plato","tags":["allegory-of-the-cave","light","plato","republic","soul"],"id":8234,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"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.","author":"Plato","tags":["education","teaching"],"id":9124,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...","author":"Plato","tags":["phaedrus","philosophy","plato","rhetoric","speech","wisdom"],"id":10525,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"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.” ― Plato, Plato's Republic.","author":"Plato","tags":["philosophy-of-life"],"id":14934,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"...And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...","author":"Plato","tags":["love","soulmates"],"id":16537,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.","author":"Plato","tags":["knowledge","decision","numbers "],"id":17473,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.","author":"Plato","tags":["well done","better","done "],"id":18376,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.","author":"Plato","tags":["excess","individual","liberty","slavery","state"],"id":18398,"author_id":"Plato"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":260,"pages":26,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}