Plato

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something."

"You should not honor men more than truth."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"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."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"He was a wise man who invented God."

"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."

"Writing is the geometry of the soul."

"He was a wise man who invented God."

"Philosophy is the highest music."