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
charm flight gaiety gives life moral music soul wings
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
cling poor soul starve strange strive touch weep
A kiss, and touch of lips; not strange my Soul should cling - Strive to cross, weep to turn, and starve with me poor thing
thinking soul looks
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
errors soul body
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.
horse soul unions
The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.
work sleep soul
Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.
thinking soul excellence
It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
soul yoke madness
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
soul geometry draws
Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
soul kind virtue
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
self choices soul
The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.
men soul quality
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
knowing soul remembered
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
soul doe
No soul willfully does wrong.