Advice Quote by Thomas McEvilley

“Plato in some sense anticipated the Catholic realism, as attacked by the heretical nominalism, by insisting on the equally fundamental fact that ideas are…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

“If you will bear in mind that Socrates, the best of the pagans, knew of no higher criterion for men, of no better guide…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“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

It is ... possible to read Plato as if he were only discussing reason and not mystical intuition in his writings but ... in…

— Thomas McEvilley

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever…

— Karl Popper

The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing…

— Rod Dreher

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

— Bertrand Russell

“[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy”

— Frederick Charles Copleston

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren