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
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
wings giving imagination
Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
plato reality giving
So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.
music wings giving
Music gives a soul to the universe.
mother giving different
Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
inspirational giving levels
It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.
eye giving right-direction
Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not
men giving honor
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
self giving matter
If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
reality artist giving
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
art giving persuasion
[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
law giving office
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.
plato names giving
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
men giving every-man
It is right to give every man his due.