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 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.
art plato men
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
government democracy anarchy
Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
plato virtuous seeking
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
plato political style
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
education plato believe
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
family children plato
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
plato authority wisest
The wisest have the most authority.
plato math amusing
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.