Platão

Birth: 0427-05-07 , Atenas

Death: -347ac , Atenas

Plato was an influential Greek philosopher of antiquity, a student of Socrates and master of Aristotle. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western thought, founder of the Academy of Athens and author of works that address themes such as justice, beauty, equality, politics, cosmology and the philosophy of mind.

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[ Socrates speaking :] Is what is holy holy because the gods approve it, or do they approve it because it is holy?

[ Socrates speaking, describing the charge against him :] Socrates is guilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing in deities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort—they are reliefs of pain.

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

[Love is] the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers.

All knowledge that is divorced from justice must be called cunning.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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Plato (c. 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher who, along with his mentor Socrates and his student Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western and Greek philosophy. His best-known work is the Theory of Forms, according to which the sensible world is an imperfect copy of an intelligible world, of Forms or Ideas. Plato wrote numerous philosophical dialogues, in which Socrates is usually the main interlocutor. He founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. His ideas profoundly influenced philosophy, theology, science, and politics. He is considered one of the greatest thinkers of all time.