Debtors Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

— George Santayana

“Plato will have to invent a transcendence that can be exercised and situated within the field of immanence itself. This is the meaning of…

— Gilles Deleuze

“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

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the…

— Girolamo Savonarola

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that…

— John Milton

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

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

— Anonymous

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We owed a debt we couldn't pay; Jesus paid a debt He didn't owe.

— Anonymous

“Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne