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
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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.
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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.
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What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.
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The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
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The good is the beautiful.
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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?
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The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.
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Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
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One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.
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It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.
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The god is the beautiful.
beautiful desire wonder
Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.