Ancient greek Quote by Friedrich Engels

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.

— Wolfgang Pauli

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

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Such a principled disregard of ad hominem evidence is a characteristically modern prejudice of professional philosophers. For most Greek and Roman thinkers from Plato…

— James Miller

There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some…

— Dugald Stewert

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on…

— Herman Bavinck

Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is…

— Bertrand Russell

“Plato and Aristotle.....survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's…

— Jack Holland

“In one of Plato's seminars a young man with a rural accent stood up one day and said Plato's philosophy was nonsense. You can…

— Norman F. Cantor

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