Philosophy is the highest music. - Plato

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Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

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Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Native Name: Πλάτων

Alternative Names: Plátōn • Platon • Aristocles • Αριστοκλής • Ἀριστοκλῆς

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But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.