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 serious importance
No human thing is of serious importance.
wine boys years
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
ideas source all-things
Ideas are the source of all things
plato opposites causes
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
hero leisure stories
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
plato perception
Science is nothing but perception.
names doctors disease
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
teacher art sight
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
plato pleasure-love evil
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
plato math divides
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
plato names giving
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
eye soul geometry
It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
plato men deception
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
writing men swim
A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.