Van Loon's Lives
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
⇥ Our modern students (judging by quite a number I have met) are apt to call Plato an "intellectual snob" and then dismiss him as one who has no business in our kind of democracy. I cannot agree at all with this point of view. Plato was an artist and therefore an aristocrat, a man to whom the best alone is good enough and who will accept no compromises in the matter of life's essentials. In an era when to most people the second best is good enough, Plato will suffer a temporary eclipse, but his hour will come again, though neither you nor I, my beloved friend, will be here to see it.🏁
Submitted by gizmo - 01/30/2026
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Van Loon's Lives
by Hendrik Willem van Loon
⇥ Our modern students (judging by quite a number I have met) are apt to call Plato an "intellectual snob" and then dismiss him as one who has no business in our kind of democracy. I cannot agree at all with this point of view. Plato was an artist and therefore an aristocrat, a man to whom the best alone is good enough and who will accept no compromises in the matter of life's essentials. In an era when to most people the second best is good enough, Plato will suffer a temporary eclipse, but his hour will come again, though neither you nor I, my beloved friend, will be here to see it.🏁
Submitted by gizmo - 01/30/2026
Book Historical 5.94 Ranked