Attempting Quote by Allan Bloom

“It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely in the…

— M.I. Finley

In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody's motivations for display and conquest are…

— Catherine Wilson

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“If you will bear in mind that Socrates, the best of the pagans, knew of no higher criterion for men, of no better guide…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a…

— Joseph Addison

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection…

— Tadeusz Borowski

Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

— Plutarch

“Plato and Aristotle.....survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's…

— Jack Holland

“.. how worthless are all these poor people who are engaged in matters political, and, as they suppose, are playing the philosopher. All drivelers.…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited, and slothful,…

— C.S. Lewis

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be…

— Bertrand Russell