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 ignorance roots
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
music plato soul
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
mother invention
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
self essence self-knowledge
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge,
beauty wings soul
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
two greek half
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
men vision
Man is a being in search of meaning.
philosophical doe tao
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
life men study
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
men knowing-who-you-are should
No man should be angry with what is true.
confused inspiration mean
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
men religion good-man
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
athlete men savages
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
years games play
We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year