Earrings Quote by Sextus Empiricus

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

— Claudius Aelianus

Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.

— Plutarch

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

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A precious mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable…

— Emily Dickinson

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

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens…

— Robert K. G. Temple

“We were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us.… At last we…

— Mark A. Flynn

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these…

— Rebecca Goldstein

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

— Clement of Alexandria

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