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 educational play
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
philosophical age action
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
karma men hands
O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.
men would-be harmony
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
ignorance soul sickness
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul
power men doe
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
soul awakening privilege
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.
harmony results rhythm
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
plato evil aim
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
important stage enterprise
The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
math creation geometry
Geometry existed before creation.
love-is two trying
Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
plato soul said
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
love love-is pursuit
Love is the pursuit of the whole.