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
real believe mean
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.
evil
To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
men law sound
Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
men worthless wisest
The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.
stars eye heaven
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.
education ideas effort
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
pain balance action
Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
evil dishonorable
All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
use
The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.
Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
soul healthy body
Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.
destiny
No one can escape his destiny.
men unjust
Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
believe mind invention
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.