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 opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
plato desire flow
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
plato speak speak-the-truth
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
wise plato men
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
mother plato stories
[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.
plato math men
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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.
plato swimming feelings
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
plato branches states
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
plato math men
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
plato ignorant mathematics
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
memories plato men
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
plato immortality after-death
I have good hope that there is something after death.
plato worst-enemy enemy
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.