Essence Quote by Philip Sidney

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

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then…

— Robert Henri

“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the…

— Plato

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

— Plutarch

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

— Will Durant

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be…

— Bertrand Russell

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not…

— Jonathan Swift

“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection…

— Tadeusz Borowski

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton