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November 19, 2006
plato is philosophy, and philosophy, plato
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato, -- at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories. No wife, no children had he, and the thinkers of all civilized nations are his posterity and are tinged with his mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato; Or The Philosopher
The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the faultless ideal which the reality misses and suggests...
-- George Santayana - Egotism In German Philosophy
Posted by amin at November 19, 2006 11:31 PM