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“Plato will have to invent a transcendence that can be exercised and situated within the field of immanence itself. This is the meaning of…

— Gilles Deleuze

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

— George Santayana

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was…

— Richard Rorty

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

— James Mark Baldwin

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

— Bertrand Russell

“Plato in some sense anticipated the Catholic realism, as attacked by the heretical nominalism, by insisting on the equally fundamental fact that ideas are…

— G.K. Chesterton

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had…

— Gilbert Ryle

Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from…

— Paul Tillich

“Plato is proved to be more religious than these men, for he allowed that the same God was both just and good,”

— The Church Fathers