About Plato
Plato ( PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the...
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel