Sarah Palkovits > Sarah's Quotes

“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.”
― Plato

“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.”
― Plato

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
― Plato

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

“...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...”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
― Plato

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic