All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
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.
If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.
Plato was a bore.