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
children mind essentials
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.
wise ignorance essentials
A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
soul doe
No soul willfully does wrong.
men sick firsts
He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
men vanity what-if
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
inspire heroism cowardly
No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
reality mind
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
soul way principles
Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
love-is mental-illness illness
Love is a grave mental illness.
men greatest-victory victory
Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
chains prisoner grows
The prisoner grows to love his chains.
blessing way madness
Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.
refuse inferiors
Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
writing men serious-man
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.