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
beautiful writing ink
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
sparks
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
beautiful law essence
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
soul should
The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
beautiful philosophy ocean
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.
may admonish hostility
When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
beautiful light wish
It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.
beautiful
The god is the beautiful.
philosophy matter speak
There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.
ambition son men
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
geometry difficult prove
Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
grateful great-things feels
When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
too-much rooms tasks
It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.
mother invention
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.