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
reality mind
Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
soul way principles
Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
belief
Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
love-is mental-illness illness
Love is a grave mental illness.
men greatest-victory victory
Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
chains prisoner grows
The prisoner grows to love his chains.
blessing way madness
Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.
refuse inferiors
Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors
writing men serious-man
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.
beautiful writing ink
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
sparks
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
beautiful law essence
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
soul should
The soul should concentrate itself by itself.
beautiful philosophy ocean
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.