Cavemen Quote by Dean Cavanagh

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

“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

“Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to furnish an…

— Lev Shestov

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was…

— Richard Rorty

“In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand times greater…

— Jack London

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

— George Santayana

Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

— Diogenes Laertius

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”

— Mary E. Pearson