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
instruction greater knows
The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
real needs creator
Our need will be the real creator.
madness sober humans
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
plato believe views
If 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.
perspective becoming
Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
play zest order
I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
sweet errors virtue
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
believe thinking words-of-wisdom
'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'
plato may injustice
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
truth men truth-is
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
plato thinking cities
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
plato men self
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.
dance order dancing
In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
dance men dancing
So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.