Bunch Quote by Dick Costolo

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

— Bertrand Russell

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

— George Santayana

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how…

— Thomas Jefferson

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever…

— Karl Popper

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

— Thomas McEvilley

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

— Plutarch

“no leaders who are so thoroughly enlightened. Thus, what Plato offers is not realism; it is idealism of the first order.”

— Anonymous

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

— Rebecca Goldstein

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the…

— Thomas McEvilley

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

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton