Quotes & Sayings About Play Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. — Plato

Utopianism is, as Plato taught us at the outset, the fire with which we must play because it is the only way we can find out what we are. We need to criticize false understandings of Utopia, but the easy way out provided by realism is deadly. — Allan Bloom

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year. — Plato

Life should be lived as play. — Plato

My cough is much worse at night and often prevents me from sleeping. It is not so much the daytime tiredness that I resent, but the inability to proceed uninter- rupted with my dreams, to run and play with my fancies, and, at last, in the early hours of the morning, to be visited with visions like a holy madman. The dreamer is like a Delian diver, fishing for pearls from the depths of our inner sea of knowledge; and I must have solved, or rather resolved, many more problems in my sleep than in my conscious hours. — Neel Burton

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play — Plato

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play. — Plato

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts. — Plato

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. — Plato

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think. — Dana Plato

[ ... ]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. — Plato

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously. — Plato

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life. — Plato

But the question is not quite so easy when we proceed to ask whether these principles are three or one; whether, that is to say, we learn with one part of our nature, are angry with another, and with a third part desire the satisfaction of our natural appetites; or whether the whole soul comes into play in each sort of action - to determine that is the difficulty. Yes, he said; there lies the difficulty. Then — Plato

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink. — Dana Plato

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied. — Rebecca Goldstein

Life must be lived as play. — Plato

While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet
whom Plato banned from his Republic
may rise up to save us all. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation. — Plato

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play. — Plato

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest. — Plato