Bigs Quote by David E. Cooper

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“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 was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

— George Santayana

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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

The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

— Bertrand Russell

“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

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

— Rebecca Goldstein