“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
Alfred North Whitehead
“So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.”
Gilbert Ryle
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It was modesty which in Greece invented the word "philosopher" and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit --the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
“Plato was a bore.”
