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 ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
plato ignorance roots
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
music plato soul
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
plato war wounds-and-scars
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
plato democracies-have liberty
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
plato love-is serious
Love is a serious mental disease.
plato excellence littles
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
plato school-education education-and-freedom
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
plato greatness becoming-great
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
plato desire flow
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
plato speak speak-the-truth
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
wise plato men
A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
mother plato stories
[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.
plato math men
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.