There is but one morality, as there is but one geometry
Quotes
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful
They know enough who know how to learn
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us