Certain Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

— Raymond Moody

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

“However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.”

— Jostein Gaarder

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a…

— Jostein Gaarder

“What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every…

— Chuck Palahniuk

But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily…

— David Levithan

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

— Ludwig von Mises

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at…

— Plato