Like Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

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

— Bertrand Russell

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was…

— Richard Rorty

I told my wife once, 'I feel like I'm getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.' Some people are like, 'You're comparing…

— W. Earl Brown

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

— Thomas McEvilley

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

— James Mark Baldwin

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever…

— Karl Popper

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