I am smart because I know I nothing.
PlatoTags: philosophical
There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.
PlatoTags: man beauty philosophy-of-life
There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.
PlatoTags: poetry soul madness muse awaken
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
PlatoTags: inspirational
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself
PlatoIs it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.
PlatoTags: motivational inspirational philosophy perseverance analogy running
[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]
In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain district which is called the district of Sais [...] To this city came Solon, and was received there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity, and made the discovery that neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old. On one occasion, wishing to draw them on to speak of antiquity, he began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the world-about Phoroneus, who is called "the first man," and about Niobe; and after the Deluge, of the survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha; and he traced the genealogy of their descendants, and reckoning up the dates, tried to compute how many years ago the events of which he was speaking happened. Thereupon one of the priests, who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age.
Tags: wisdom knowledge history egypt
Εκείνος που κάνει την αδικία γίνεται πάντα πιο ελεεινός από εκείνον που την υφίσταται.
PlatoΟι καλές πράξεις παρέχουν δύναμη στον εαυτό μας και εμπνέουν καλές πράξεις και στους άλλους.
PlatoΟι πιο ενάρετοι άνθρωποι είναι εκείνοι που είναι ευχαριστημένοι με το να είναι ενάρετοι χωρίς να επιζητούν να φαίνονται ως τέτοιοι.
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