Clothes Quote by Claudius Aelianus

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

— Sextus Empiricus

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“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

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

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

— Wolfgang Pauli

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

“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

Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell