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“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers and others…

— Thomas McEvilley

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

— James Mark Baldwin

Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from…

— Paul Tillich

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the…

— Walter J. Ong

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

— Seneca the Younger

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

— Rebecca Goldstein

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

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel