5 Must Know Facts about Greek philosopher Plato
The Greek philosopher Plato was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle.
He wrote on a wide variety of topics including Politics, Aesthetics, Cosmology, and Epistemology.
To this day, we refer to “Platonic Love” and “Platonic Ideals.”
Plato’s search for knowledge and truth formed the basis of much of Western Philosophy.
Plato studied philosophy, poetry and gymnastics.
Top 12 Profound Plato Quotes.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
“Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
“I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.”
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
“There is truth in wine and children”
“Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.”
Plato’s 12 Timeless Words Of Wisdom For Human Kind.
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
“You should not honour men more than truth.”
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. ”
12 Plato Love Quotes To Fill Your Heart With Platonic Love.
“Love is the pursuit of the whole.”
Nothing is beautiful without a struggle.”
“You’re my Star, a stargazer too,
and I wish that I were Heaven,
with a billion eyes to look at you!”
“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.”
“…and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other’s sight, as I may say, even for a moment…”
“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
Education
“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
“Excellence” is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act “rightly” because we are “excellent”,
in fact we achieve “excellence” by acting “rightly”.”
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
“That’s what education should be,” I said, “the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn’t be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn’t facing the right way.”
Philosophy
“All is flux, nothing stays still”
“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”
“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”
“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ”
“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
“The first and best victory is to conquer self” “To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death whether it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil.”