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 cities physicians
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
soul musical way
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it
math numbers degrees
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
worth-living self-discovery
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
philosophical eye soul
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
errors soul body
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
math creation geometry
Geometry existed before creation.
ambition character reality
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.
philosophical giving gold
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
philosophical greatest-victory shameful
To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
reality political world
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
victory development-and-growth personal-growth
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
stories
Those who tell the stories rule society.
ignorance soul sickness
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul