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
grows
I would fain grow old learning many things.
moving views order
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
book son immortal
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
opposites serious understood
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
children parent use
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.
philosophy wonder
There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.
contemplating
We become what we contemplate.
belief applause multitudes
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
plato men evil
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
plato philosophy drinking
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
plato science movement
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.
children teaching exercise
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.
hands office democracy
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
health healing ignorant
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.