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427 BC–347 BC Greece
Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well as men.
Perception and knowledge could never be the same.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you.
Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within.
All that is said by any of us can only be imitation and representation.
Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
The beginning in every task is the chief thing.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Philosophy is the acquisition of knowledge.
No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be
It is better to be unborn than untaught: for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Benjamin Jowett's interpretive vernacular translation (1871)
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Those having lamp will pass them on to others.
We need to use every argument we can to fight against anyone who does away with knowledge, understanding and intelligence but at the same time asserts anything at all about anything.
Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and if visible or tangible objects are obtruding upon the argument, refusing to be satisfied.
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