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
golden sun influence
By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
adversity want helping
He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
knowledge may masters
In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
arrogance folly
Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
kindness lost
Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
beauty beautiful youth
For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.
dance art mean
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
plato skins pieces
The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.
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 math men
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
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 branches states
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
plato ignorant mathematics
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.
atheist ignorance roots
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.