Plato Quotes

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

I seek the truth.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.