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
fighting enjoy-life battle
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
life sacrifice men
Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
men water-of-life doctrine
A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.
mouths common life-is
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
fun play lifetime
An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
life-and-love confined access
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
good-life life-is
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
philosophy life-is life-worth-living
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
life mean way
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
life philosophy feelings
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
love-life needs hunger-and-thirst
The God of Love lives in a state of need.
live-life play careers
What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
life running men
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.
life-and-death greek departure
I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.