Common Quote by Bertrand Russell

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.

— Wolfgang Pauli

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new…

— Edward Gibbon

“My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I told my wife once, 'I feel like I'm getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.' Some people are like, 'You're comparing…

— W. Earl Brown

It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in…

— Thomas McEvilley

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 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

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

— Bertrand Russell

“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

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

— John Crowe Ransom