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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

• Wohl aber gelingt es ihm, heimlich in die gemeinsame Behausung der Athene und des Hephaistos einzudringen, diese Werkstätte ihrer Kunstliebe. Da stiehlt er die Feuerkunst des Hephaistos und die anders geartete Kunst der Athene und macht sie dem Menschen zum Geschenk. Damit wird der Grund gelegt zu der leiblichen Wohlfahrt des Menschen. Den Prometheus aber traf später infolge der Torheit des Epimetheus, wie die Sage erzählt, die Strafe für den Diebstahl. Da aber der Mensch nun göttlicher Güter teilhaftig geworden war, war er unter allen Geschöpfen wegen dieser Verwandtschaft mit den Göttern das einzige, das an Götter glaubte.
  • Kunst
  • Verwandtschaft
  • Mensch(en)

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• Zu welchen aber gehöre ich? Zu denen, die sich gerne widerlegen lassen, wenn sie etwas Falsches sagen!
  • Charakter
  • Persönlichkeit

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• (Love is) the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.

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• A philosopher is one who desires to discern the truth.

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• All knowledge that is divorced from justice must be called cunning.

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• All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

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• And so with the objects of knowledge: these derive from the Good not only their power of being known, but their very being and reality; and Goodness is not the same thing as being, but even beyond being, surpassing it in dignity and power.

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• Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one the city of the poor and the other the city of the rich, each at war with the other.

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• As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

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• As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

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• Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

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• Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.

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• Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

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• But if we are guided by me we shall believe that the soul is immortal and capable of enduring all extremes of good and evil, and so we shall hold ever to the upward way and pursue righteousness with wisdom always and ever, that we may be dear to ourselves and to the gods both during our sojourn here and when we receive our reward.

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• Democracy . . . is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder. It dispenses a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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• Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

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• Democracy passes into despotism.

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• Even the gods love their jokes.

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• Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

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