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
reality words-of-wisdom function
The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.
soul world entity
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
believe men looks
We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.
political unity splits
Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
teacher educational philosophy
All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
dog animal soul
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
graduation education teacher
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
errors soul body
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
wise evil becoming
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
business knowledge numbers
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
important answers right-questions
The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
reality political world
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
soulmate sight soul-mate
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment...
character musical elements
Music is a defining element of character.