Known to have one of the greatest influences on modern Western thought, and to have taught his ways to Aristotle in the Academy,
Plato is considered one of the greatest minds and logical rationalists in world history. While his works often border mysticism, his continual pursuit
of ethical answers based on logical processes still influences law, politics, education, ethics, philosophy, and psychology even today.
Not much is known about his childhood and young days but he was of some higher social class. He wrote poetry and plays and had access to the best
libraries and teachers available in his day. He knew much about the outside world, mainly through reading and intimate discussions with others.
He is considered to be one of the earliest philosophers.
(428 BC - 347 BC)
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
~ Plato
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
~ Plato
Philosophy is the highest music.
~ Plato
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
~ Plato
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
~ Plato
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
~ Plato
Man - a being in search of meaning.
~ Plato
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease,
when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
~ Plato
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
~ Plato
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
~ Plato
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
~ Plato
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
~ Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
~ Plato
He was a wise man who invented beer.
~ Plato
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
~ Plato
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and
there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
~ Plato
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
~ Plato
Your silence gives consent.
~ Plato
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
~ Plato
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all;
too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
~ Plato
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
~ Plato
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
~ Plato
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
~ Plato
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
~ Plato
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
~ Plato
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
~ Plato
Pythagoras, one of the greatest men in human history, was the Greek philosopher, scientist, and religious teacher.
Sometimes he appeared as man of science, sometimes as a preacher of mystic doctrines. He developed a school of thought
that accepted the passage of the soul (which never dies) into another body and established many influential mathematical and philosophical theories.
He founded the mystic Pythagorean cult devoted to the study of numbers, which the Pythagoreans saw as concrete, material objects.
(c. 575 B.C.E. - c. 495 B.C.E.)
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
~ Buddha
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confucius
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
