Plato Quotes

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

That which is cannot be true.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

I think, therefore I am.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Truth is the summit of being.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?