9 Plato Quotes on Truth

Plato quotes on truth

3. Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.

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

25. The gods are not magicians who transform themselves; neither do they deceive mankind in any way.

29. 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.

34. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

47. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

62. No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

75. What is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek?

76. Amicus Plato - amicus Aristoteles - magis amica veritas

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