Doe Quote by Seneca the Younger

“Plato and Aristotle.....survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's…

— Jack Holland

While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional…

— John Dewey

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

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

— Claudius Aelianus

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

— Lord Chesterfield

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have no clue what Plato was talking about when he said that the unexamined wife was not worth leaving. I don't even know…

— Rock Cowles

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Bertrand Russell