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Plato

Meno

  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    may not the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed to be incapable of being taught
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    do not retract the assertion that if virtue is knowledge it may be taught; but I fear that I have some reason in doubting whether virtue is knowledge
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    And is not this universally true of human nature? All other things hang upon the soul, and the things of the soul herself hang upon wisdom, if they are to be good; and so wisdom is inferred to be that which profits—and virtue, as we say, is profitable
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    the truth of all things always existed in the soul, then the soul is immortal.
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    if he always possessed this knowledge he would always have known; or if he has acquired the knowledge he could not have acquired it in this life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be made to do the same with all geometry and every other branch of knowledge.
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    The soul, then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    man cannot enquire either about that which he knows, or about that which he does not know; for if he knows, he has no need to enquire; and if not, he cannot; for he does not know the very subject about which he is to enquire (
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    acquisition of such goods is no more virtue than the non-acquisition and want of them, but whatever is accompanied by justice or honesty is virtue, and whatever is devoid of justice is vice.
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    the non-acquisition of gold and silver in a dishonest manner for oneself or another
  • metteovehas quoted4 years ago
    justice or temperance or holiness, or some other part of virtue, as would appear, must accompany the acquisition, and without them the mere acquisition of good will not be virtue
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