My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato…

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose…

— Sri Aurobindo

“I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven…

— Ken Poirot

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the…

— Girolamo Savonarola

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.

— Bertrand Russell

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on…

— Herman Bavinck

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less…

— Hannah Arendt

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him;…

— Edith Hamilton

“In one of Plato's seminars a young man with a rural accent stood up one day and said Plato's philosophy was nonsense. You can…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and many others speak of dying for the law, for one’s country, one’s friends, one’s family, even for the emperor.”

— N.T. Wright

“It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to…

— Marshall McLuhan

“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to…

— Blaise Pascal

Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as…

— Haruki Murakami

The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one…

— Edward Gibbon

“Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another…

— Håkan Nesser

“No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.”

— Bella James