| The Petrarchist would have loathed the platonist as a moral Pariah. |
| Numenius was the last Platonist, as Posidonius was the last Stoic combatant. |
| Coleridge was aiming at an important truth when he said that every man was born an Aristotelian or a platonist. |
| But in his moment of inspiration, the platonist will have no sense for the imperfect. |
| In philosophy she was a platonist, in politics an Opportunist. |
| For a pagan Platonist its particularity seemed scandalously incompatible with divine immutability and with a universal operation of providence in the cosmos as a whole. |
