What is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- This quote equates Plato with Moses, suggesting Plato conveyed similar divine truths but using Greek language and culture.
- In plain terms
- Plato spoke the same truths as Moses but in Greek.
- What can you take from it?
- Different cultures may express the same universal wisdom.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are wisdom traditions universal?
- How does culture shape truth?
Another view
Equating different figures can oversimplify their distinct contexts.
More from Plato
Xenophon, too, does not appear to have been very friendlily disposed towards him: and accordingly they have, as if in rivalry of one another, both written book…
Permalink to quote #74 Amicus Plato - amicus Aristoteles - magis amica veritas
Permalink to quote #76 He was the first author who wrote treatises in the form of dialogues ... And as he argued against almost every one who had lived before his time, it is often a…
Permalink to quote #73
Related quotes
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde quote #35 Plato was right, but not quite right.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonGilbert Keith Chesterton quote #41 The only non-Christians who seemed to me really to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something like religi…
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis quote #84