Plato
Plato
Platowas a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire œuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
plato branches states
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
plato math men
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
soul body contemplating
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
taught virtue
Is virtue something that can be taught?
vices virtue produce
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
pain anger envy
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
children parenting beast
From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
soul body made
No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul
prison slave persons
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.
pain reason pleasure
Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?
children compulsion train
Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
plato ignorant mathematics
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
body affair love-affair
Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
remembrance
All knowledge is but remembrance.