Bed Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

— Benjamin Jowett

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Wolfgang Pauli

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“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

“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

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance…

— Plato