Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

— Michael Shermer

“It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist predecessors, became…

— Erich Auerbach

“For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Most of Aesop’s fables have many different levels and meanings. There are those who make myths of them by choosing some feature that fits…

— Michel de Montaigne

“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

“We were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us.… At last we…

— Mark A. Flynn

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.  Those who wish to sing always find a song.  At the touch of…

— Plato

“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

— Dan Brown

“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language;…

— Herodotus

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity…

— Joseph Campbell

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth…

— Edward Clodd