Quote of Plato - Now do you think one can...
Biography - Plato:
Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?
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Quotes about nature:
Quotes about the Universe:
The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything
Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Plato also said...
The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
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