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.
art plato numbers
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
plato speak slander
Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
plato skins pieces
The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
plato kind given
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
plato men intelligent
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
plato men evil
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
plato philosophy drinking
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
plato science movement
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.
plato amusement able
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
plato honesty dishonesty
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
plato ignorance doors
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
plato philosophy thinking
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.
plato lasts all-things
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?