Clue Quote by David Roochnik

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

— Julian Baggini

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

— Francois Viete

Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process.…

— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

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

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from…

— Eric Kandel

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance…

— Plato

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix…

— Bertrand Russell