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
greed democracy excess
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
blood hands land
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.
government democracy kind
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
break-up disease break
Love: a grave mental disease.
art would-be measurement
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
love valentines-day art
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
art men idols
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
religion atheism moral
Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?
evil noble return
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
errors soul body
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
death men excellence
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.
death real knowing
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
death men hours
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
faithful praise given
That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.