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“Maybe even more important than the D.B.P. [Divine Brotherhood of Pythagoras], ∞-wise is the protomystic Parmenides of Elea (c.515-? BCE), not only because of…

— David Foster Wallace

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on…

— Herman Bavinck

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

— Edward Gibbon

“Much as Euclid proved that there can only ever be five 3d Platonic solids, over two millennia later Schafli proved that there are definitely…

— Matt Parker

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but…

— Peter Adamson

“Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work as though…

— John D. Barrow

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

— Donald Judd

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can…

— Rene Descartes