30 Phil, Chapter 8: Plato and Rationalism
Touchstones: Reflective Inquiry and Ignorance is Bliss

Plato was a Greek philosopher born in Athens. He was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. Plato’s Theory of Forms asserts that the reality is only a shadow, or image, of the true reality of the Realm of Forms — abstract, perfect, unchanging concepts or ideals that transcend time and space.

My favorite sayings:

• Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. 
• If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
• If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
• Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
• Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.
• Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
• If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.