Zitate von Platon
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Platon:
Wenn wir aber jetzt in unserer Untersuchung durchweg richtig verfahren sind und die Wahrheit gesagt haben, dann dürfte die Tugend wohl weder ein Naturgeschenk noch lehrbar sein, vielmehr durch göttliche Schickung denen innewohnen, die ihrer teilhaftig sind.
Informationen über Platon
Metaphysiker, Schriftsteller, Philosoph, Schüler von Sokrates, eine der bekanntesten und einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten der Geistesgeschichte (Griechenland, 428 - 348 v. Chr.).
Platon · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Geboren am 10.10.-428 in Athen
Gestorben am 31.12.-348 in Athen
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage
Unbekannt
Weitere 352 Zitate von Platon
-
Evils, Theodorus, can never pass away, for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. Having no place among the gods in heaven, of necessity they hover around the mortal nature and this earthly sphere. Wherefore we ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
-
Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in government.
-
For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
-
God is truth and light his shadow.
-
He was a wise man who invented God.
-
-
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
-
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
-
He whom love touches not walks in darkness.
-
Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all the other things called goods, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do as benefits to the just.
-
Holiness is what is loved by all the gods. It is loved because it is holy, and not holy because it is loved.
-
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
-
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
-
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
-
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
-
Is that which is holy loved by the gods because it is holy, or is it holy because it is loved by the gods?
-
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
-
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
-
Let no one ignorant of geometry enter my door.
-
Love will make men dare to die for their beloved - love alone; and women as well as men.
-
Medicine is an art, and attends to the nature and constitution of the patient, and has principles of action and reason in each case.