Plato Quotes


Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not


Citations

Plato. The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 3. Translated by Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press, 1892, p. 219.

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Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn, pronounced [plá.tɔːn] in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.