“Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”
Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) was a prominent Greek philosopher, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy. He founded the Academy, which was the first institution of higher education in the Western world. Plato's philosophy, centered around the theory of Forms, emphasized the importance of reason and morality. more
“The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”
“Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.”
“No human thing is of serious importance.”
“Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?”