Average Quote by Walter Kaufmann

“It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely in the…

— M.I. Finley

“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

“If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so…

— H.L. Mencken

“So far as one understands a man, one is that man. The man of genius takes his place in the above argument as he…

— Otto Weininger

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

— Hannah Arendt

“Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy.”

— Kevin Swanson

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance.…

— Alfred Einstein

Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities,…

— John Carroll