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
compared knowledge learning
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
anger greek-philosopher
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
becomes love
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
happening legislate man sorts
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
certainly medical
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
age calm equally hardly nature opposite pressure youth
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
income less pay unjust
When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less
plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
cannot laughable opposites serious understood
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites
work self discipline
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
apology men wisest-man
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
plato desire flow
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
lying shadow culture
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.