Authority Quote by Edward Gibbon

“There maybe in philosophy, just as well as in anything else, a bigotted attachment to certain doctrines and systems, which renders men intolerant and…

— August Neander

The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about…

— John Dewey

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

— 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

“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 compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and…

— Raymond Cattell

It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools!

— Digory Kirke

“This classmate told me that Plato drove this idea home in his dialogue Euthydemus , in which Socrates puts down the Sophists, claiming that…

— Daniel Klein

“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

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

Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and…

— Pierre Hadot

A Socrates in every classroom.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold