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
philosopher states rulers
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.
education teaching men
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
eye dark men
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.
education children play
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
stories
Those who tell the stories rule society.
heart reality words-of-wisdom
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
love-is desire world
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
fasting efficiency greater
I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency
inspirational education philosophy
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
believe eye men
In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.
advice progress matter
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
sheep care
The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
people priorities care
... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible...
beauty eye reality
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.