For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
PlatoTags: wisdom thinking philosophy wondering
not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them?
PlatoThey say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered injustice and have had experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and obtain the other, they think that they had better agree among themselves to have neither; hence there arise laws and mutual covenants, and that which is ordained by law is termed by them lawful and just. This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice, it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all, which is to suffer injustice without the power of retaliation, and justice, being at a middle point between the two, is tolerated not as a good, but as the lesser evil, and honored by reason of the inability of me to do injustice. For no man who is worthy to be called a man would ever submit to such an agreement if he were able to resist; he would be mad if he did.
PlatoMen of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
PlatoWhen the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.
PlatoTags: politics liberty freedom history
The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
PlatoTags: education
...both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well.
PlatoThe soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
PlatoTags: lady-jane
Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.
PlatoTags: art inspiration
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long …arousing and persuading and reproaching…You will not easily find another like me.
PlatoTags: serious
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