Quote by Gilles Deleuze

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Remember your Plato, Maeve. ‘If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with the idea of things and…

— Elizabeth Cunningham

“Plato had one Big Idea from which everything else derived. He fundamentally defined reality as that which is permanent and unchanging. Only ideas are…

— Norman F. Cantor

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

— Julian Baggini

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

— Carl Jung

“It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“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

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

— Anonymous

“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.”

— Michael Greenberg

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

— Anonymous