Attics Quote by Clement of Alexandria

“Between you and me, Plato was a hack. All that crap about higher forms and caves? He was drunk when he wrote it. I…

— Gene Doucette

“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.”

— Troy DeNuthe

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Plutarch

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

— Herman Bavinck

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language…

— Plutarch

“Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himself.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom…

— Plato

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

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

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that…

— Socrates

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton