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
stories
Those who tell the stories rule society.
ignorance soul sickness
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul
love darkness walks
He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
eye light soul
The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.
harmony results rhythm
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
plato ignorance evil
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
beautiful running effort
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
heart reality words-of-wisdom
Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
abstinence temperance
Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
beautiful men thinking
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.
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.
wise evil becoming
To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
music republic art-education
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
soul awakening privilege
The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.