Quotes

Until philosophers become kings in their cities, or those now called kings and rulers truly become philosophers, cities will have no rest from their evils.

Injustice brings discord into a man’s soul, while justice establishes order and harmony in it.

It seems I am wiser than this man in this: although neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas I, as I do not know, do not think I know either.

Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

One must be a sea to be able to receive a polluted stream without becoming unclean.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

This world is a tyrant even to a tyrant, let alone to a noble soul!

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.