According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
PlatoWe are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
PlatoBe kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
PlatoStichwörter: kindness
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
PlatoStichwörter: philosophy enlightenment
It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
PlatoMusical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
PlatoStichwörter: music philosophy
Und nicht wahr, wenn man ihn zwänge, in das Licht selbst zu sehen, so würde er Schmerzen an den Augen haben, davonlaufen und sich wieder jenen Schattengegenständen zuwenden, die er ansehen kann, und würde dabei bleiben, diese wären wirklich deutlicher als die, welche er gezeigt bekam?
And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take and take in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him?
Stichwörter: plato republic allegory-of-the-cave der-staat höhlengleichnis politeia
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being
PlatoThe beginning is the most important part of any work.
PlatoThere is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial of virtue in the higher sense is absolutely stopped; for a man is always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant anxiety about the state of his body.
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