Details Quote by Ibn Khaldun

Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of…

— Immanuel Kant

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a…

— Timothy Leary

“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

“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”

— Gregory J.E. Rawlins

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell…

— Plato

Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all…

— Ben Jonson

Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!

— Kurt Gödel

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms…

— Friedrich Engels

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

— Bertrand Russell

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of…

— Allan Bloom

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