Educated Quote by John Shelby Spong

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

— Wolfgang Pauli

“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

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

— Harold Innis

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern…

— Edward Feser

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

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

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

“At only two points in human history had knowledge radically expanded on a global scale. Once during the Renaissance, which continued to the present,…

— Steve Berry