The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.
I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Plato was a bore.
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