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
play should
Life should be lived as play.
memories character discovery
... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
law reign needs
Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.
feelings sacred loved-ones
Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.
plowing seeds knows
He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.
soul body want
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
firsts doe needs
You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?
soldier important done
Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
men upright-man purpose
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life....
casting doe deceiving
Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
children men old-man
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
children men honest
In an honest man there is always something of a child.
teacher honor degrees
A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.
good-life life-is
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.