Concern Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

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

— Bertrand Russell

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

— Rebecca Goldstein

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.”

— Jostein Gaarder

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

— George Santayana

“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

“My worldview aside from my Christian perspective is more aligned with Plato's thinking, conclusions, and philosophy”

— R. Alan Woods

“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.”

— Michael Greenberg

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

— Julian Baggini