He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
PlatoArithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
PlatoViolent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
PlatoLove is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
PlatoIf the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.
Plato