Quote of Plato - Now do you think one can...
Biography - Plato:
Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?
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Quotes about nature:
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Quotes about the Universe:
The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything
Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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