Love is a serious mental disease. -Plato

Teaching Of Plato

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Plato is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition.

Some thoughts taken out form the work of Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

-Plato

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

-Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

-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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

-Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

-Plato

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

-Plato

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.

-Plato

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

-Plato

  

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

-Plato

  

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

-Plato

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

-Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

-Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

-Plato

 Love is a serious mental disease.

-Plato

Plato appears to have been the founder of Western political philosophy, with his Republic, and Laws among other dialogues, providing some of the earliest extant treatments of political questions from a philosophical perspective.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes Plato as "...one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.

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