Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
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.
Plato was a bore.
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.