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)
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~ Plato
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
~ Plato
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~ Plato
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
~ Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
~ Plato
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
~ Plato
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women
not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
~ Plato
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
~ Plato
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
~ Plato
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the
whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
~ Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light.
~ Plato
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
~ Plato
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
~ Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
~ Plato
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
~ Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
~ Plato
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
~ Plato
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
~ Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
~ Plato
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
~ Plato
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
~ Plato
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world,
or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
~ Plato
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
~ Plato
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
~ Plato
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
~ Plato
The wisest have the most authority.
~ Plato
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
~ Plato
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.
~ Plato
Akhenaton (or Akhenaten) was the tenth pharaoh of Egypt's
eighteenth dynasty (c.1352-1336 BCE).
Son of Amenhotep III and the chief queen, Tiya, Akhenaton
succeeded to the throne as Amenhotep IV and took a throne
name meaning "the sun's ultimate perfection, unique one
of the sun." He created a new capital at Amarna.
He is often referred to as the "heretic pharaoh," due
to his abandonment of all of the traditional Egyptian gods
except for Aten, the god associated with the disc of the
sun who had been growing in importance and popularity for at
least a couple of generations prior to the reign of Akhenaten.
It was in honour of this god that the pharaoh changed his name.
(1352-1336 BCE)
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
