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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I must distinguish between that which always is and never becomes and which is apprehended by reason and reflection, and that which always becomes and never is and is conceived by opinion with the help of sense.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I don't think we shall quarrel about a word the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

I am smart because I know I nothing.

You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

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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.