„You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm’s length and say, ‘Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„You always hear people say that philosophy makes no progress and that the same philosophical problems which were already preoccupying the Greeks are still troubling us today. But people who say that do not understand the reason why it has to be so. The reason is that our language has remained the same and always introduces us to the same questions…. I read: "philosophers are no nearer to the meaning of 'Reality' than Plato got,…". What a strange situation. How extraordinary that Plato could have got even as far as he did! Or that we could not get any further! Was it because Plato was so extremely clever?“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.“
— Stephen King
„Socrates having heard Plato read the Lysis, said, "O Hercules! what a number of lies the young man has told about me." For he had set down a great many things as sayings of Socrates which he never said.“
— Socrates