Asks Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“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

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

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements…

— Dick Costolo

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be…

— George Bernard Shaw

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers and others…

— Thomas McEvilley

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the…

— Thomas McEvilley

As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of others, the…

— Henry Fielding

“That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain unknown to…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The people who believe themselves superior to you will reveal themselves in how they respond to criticism from you. An opinion of anyone carries…

— Crystal Evans

The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and…

— Carl Sagan