• When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14