Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Plato

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

Plato, Compassion, Self

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato, Book, Greek

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.24, e-artnow

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Plato, Philosophy

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato, Philosophy, Bores

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato, Men, Degrees

Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato, Eye, Reality

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom, Plato, Philosophical

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.294, Vintage

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato, Envy, Style

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Plato

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