Create-wealth Quote by Stephen Richards

“It is Plato's portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2.500 years.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“If we read the new masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it those reflections of ours that we…

— Alain de Botton

I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.

— John Cameron Mitchell

“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .”

— Joseph Devlin

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer…

— James A. McDougall

“read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I”

— Gloria Steinem

Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it was made…

— Jonathon Keats

“The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of…

— Oscar Wilde

“His language blends well with conflicting arrogance. David Herbert Lawrence was one writer who convinced me of the need for being plisky towards eliciting…

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.

— Chita Rivera

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

“Olive Wellwood had the feeling writers often have when told perfect tales for fictions, that there was too much fact, too little space for…

— A.S. Byatt