Cases Quote by Thomas McEvilley

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix…

— Bertrand Russell

“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance…

— Plato

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

— Michael Greenberg

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

— Carl Jung

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.

— Wolfgang Pauli

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not…

— Anonymous

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche